Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving communications including an upgraded communication quality at a first UE and a second UE. The first UE can determine the first UE is operating using a first RAT. The first UE can also initiate a communication comprising video media between the first UE and a second UE, where a communication quality of the communication is based on the first RAT, where the second UE is operating using a second RAT supporting a higher communication quality than the first RAT. Additionally, the first UE can determine that the first UE is in coverage of the second RAT. The first UE can also indicate, to the second UE, that the first UE is in the coverage of the second RAT. Further, the first UE can adjust the communication quality of the communication to the higher communication quality for the second RAT.

Abstract: Provided is a synchronization method, which includes: a first device periodically sends a first PSS sequence and first PDSCH control information at frequency points F1 to FN in sequence, where the first PSS sequence and the first PDSCH control information are used for a second device to detect the first PSS sequence and detect the first PDSCH control information; the first device receives signals at frequency points f1 to fM in sequence and detects a second PSS sequence; when the second PSS sequence is detected, the first device obtains second half-frame synchronization information and detects second PDSCH control information according to the second half-frame synchronization information; and when the second PDSCH control information is detected, the first device obtains second frame synchronization information and enters a synchronization state. Also provided are a synchronization device, a synchronization system, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Abstract: A method for sending configuration parameters includes: classifying a configuration parameter set into an information element structure, wherein the information element structure includes at least one information element used to carry configuration parameters in the configuration parameter set; adding the information element structure to a radio resource control RRC message; when UE establishes a low-latency and high-reliability service request, sending, to the UE, the RRC message including the information element structure.

Abstract: A resource unit indication method and apparatus, and a storage medium, where the method includes: an access point (AP) sending a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) to a plurality of stations (STAs), where a transmission bandwidth of the PPDU is divided into M subblocks, M is an integer greater than 1, the transmission bandwidth is greater than or equal to 80 megahertz (MHz), the PPDU includes M first fields, the M first fields are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M subblocks, the first field is transmitted on a corresponding subblock, and the first field is used to indicate a resource unit (RU) allocated by the AP to at least one of the plurality of STAs.

Abstract: A signal configuration method and a related device, wherein a network device determines configuration information that is on a second carrier and/or a second beam and that is used to transmit a sounding reference signal SRS; and sends the configuration information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device switches, based on the configuration information, the SRS from a first carrier and/or a first beam to the second carrier and/or the second beam for transmission The configuration information includes at least one of symbol information, slot information, and/or frequency band information, a communications parameter of the first carrier and a communications parameter of the second carrier are the same or different, and the communications parameter includes a subcarrier spacing and/or a waveform parameter. Accordingly, correct SRS configuration can be ensured to some extent.

Abstract: Various solutions for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring configuration for carrier aggregation (CA) with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may transmit a capability report to indicate a plurality of monitoring combinations of PDCCH monitoring capabilities to a network node. The apparatus may receive a monitoring combination configured by the network node based on the capability report. The apparatus may determine a monitoring budget by using the configured monitoring combination. The apparatus may perform a PDCCH monitoring according to the monitoring budget.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit controls transmission of an inducement frame for causing another communication device to transmit a transmission suppression period reduction frame for reducing a transmission suppression period. In addition, the control unit controls transmission of the transmission suppression period reduction frame on the basis of the inducement frame in a case where the control unit receives the inducement frame. Transmission suppression periods set in other information processing apparatuses are equally reduced to eliminate inequality in using wireless resources.

Abstract: Facilitating receiver beamforming and antenna panel switching in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise performing a receiver beam evaluation procedure that determines whether a receiving beam is to be changed from a first receiving beam to a second receiving beam. The operations can also comprise transmitting, to a network device, a request for permission to perform a beam management procedure that switches the receiving beam from the first receiving beam to the second receiving beam. Further, the operations can comprise receiving, from the network device, a response to the request. The response can comprise an indication of an action to be performed based on a result of the receiver beam evaluation procedure.

Abstract: A device may receive capacity information associated with a plurality of base stations, and may receive user equipment demands associated with the plurality of base stations. The device may receive, from a satellite, a satellite backhaul demand associated with the satellite, and may calculate excess backhaul capacities associated with the plurality of base stations, based on the user equipment demands and the capacity information. The device may identify a base station, of the plurality of base stations, to provide a satellite backhaul path for the satellite, based on the excess backhaul capacities and the satellite backhaul demand, and may provide, to the base station, a message instructing the base station to activate a satellite antenna associated with the base station. The device may provide, to the satellite, data identifying the base station, and may establish the satellite backhaul path for the satellite, via the base station.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may use beamforming to transmit control and data transmissions to a set of user equipments (UEs). A base station may transmit downlink control information (DCI) to UEs that may indicate a set of resource allocations in which the base station may schedule a data transmission, and a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. The TCI state may indicate which transmission beam the base station may use to transmit a data transmission in a particular resource allocation. The UE may receive and decode the DCI and identify resource allocation information and an index that may indicate one or more TCI states being used for transmitting a broadcast or unicast transmission to the UE within a resource allocation. The UE may select one or more of the resource allocations to monitor for, and subsequently receive, the data transmission.

Abstract: A communication method and a related apparatus. The communication method includes determining, based on a starting location of a first remaining minimum system information RMSI detection window and a time index of a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block, a starting location of an RMSI detection window corresponding to a terminal device, where a value of the starting location of the RMSI detection window is one of four possible values of the starting location of the RMSI detection window, and receiving the RMSI based on the starting location of the RMSI detection window.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, a sidelink user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for performing a channel sensing procedure of a sidelink resource selection procedure for identifying sidelink resource candidates in a resource selection window. The configuration may indicate a first channel metric and a second channel metric for performing the channel sensing procedure. The UE may measure reference signaling in a sensing window according to one or both of the first and second channel metrics based on a duplex mode of the UE while performing the channel sensing. The reference signaling may correspond to a set of sidelink resource candidates in a resource selection window. The UE may determine an available set of sidelink resource candidates for a sidelink transmission from the set of sidelink resource candidates based on the measuring.

Abstract: A system for monitoring cellular communications including a passive sensor device, processors, and memory devices. The memory devices having instructions that cause the processors to identify active downlink channels using a first radio to monitor each channel in a cellular spectrum and store downlink channel information, including configuration data, for each of the identified active downlink channels. The processors identify active uplink channels using a second radio to monitor each channel in the cellular spectrum and store uplink channel information for each of the identified active uplink channels. The processors correlate one of the active uplink channels with a corresponding active downlink channel and tune a third radio to the active uplink channel using the configuration data for the corresponding active downlink channel. The processors also tune a fourth radio to the active downlink channel corresponding to the at least one active uplink channel using the corresponding configuration data.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal, and a network device. In the embodiments of this application, an operation on a wideband that includes a plurality of bandwidth parts can be supported.

Abstract: A method for processing downlink (DL) signals by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Especially, the UE is configured not to transmit a Hybrid Automatic Repeat and request (HARQ) feedback for the DL HARQ process. The method comprises steps of upon a first Physical downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) for the DL HARQ process is detected, starting a timer for monitoring subsequent PDCCHs related to retransmission of the DL HARQ process, without transmitting the HARQ feedback; and monitoring subsequent PDCCHs related to retransmission of the DL HARQ process while the timer is running.

Abstract: A method employing an array of antenna elements and a plurality of transceivers, each including (1) a transmitter chain; (2) a receiver chain; and (3) a duplexer having an input electrically connected to the transmitter chain, an output electrically connected to the receiver chain, and a duplexed port electrically connected to a different antenna element, the method involving: identifying among the plurality of transceivers a first and second subsets of transceivers such that together the first and second subsets of transceivers constitute all of the transceivers among the plurality of transceivers; for each transceiver within the first subset of transceivers, but not for the transceivers within the second subset of transceivers, introducing a ? degree phase shift between the duplexed port of the duplexer and the antenna element to which the duplexed port is electrically connected, wherein ?=?(2n+1)90°, and wherein n is an integer.

Abstract: This application discloses communication methods and communication apparatuses. A terminal device receives indication information from a network device. The indication information includes one or more indication parameters. The terminal device obtains one or more pieces of configuration information based on the indication parameters. The terminal device performs uplink or downlink data transmission according to the one or more pieces of configuration information. Each pieces of configuration information includes information of a starting location and information of a quantity of time domain symbols in a slot that are occupied by uplink data or downlink data. Each piece of configuration information is selected from a first set of configuration information or a second set of configuration information.

Abstract: A system and method for predictive congestion detection for network devices is provided. A routing engine associated with an input of a router receives congestion information from an output, utilizing the received congestion information to initialize a congestion value associated with that output. Between receipt of updated congestion information from the output, the routing engine predicts a potential change in the congestion state at the output based on the congestion value and information regarding usage of the output that is known to the routing engine.

Abstract: Spatial redistributors and methods of redistributing signals in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes an array of channels configured to receive and retransmit a signal, where each of a plurality of independently operating channels in the array includes: at least one antenna element; an RF chain configured to apply at least a time delay to the received signal prior to retransmission; control circuitry configured to control the time delay applied to the received signal by the RF chain; and a reference oscillator. In addition, the array of channels is configured to redirect a signal received from a first set of directions for retransmission in a second set of directions; and the control circuitry of the channels in the array of channels coordinates the time delays applied to the received signal across the array of channels to control the wave front of the retransmitted signal.

Abstract: A base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink control information to a user equipment, the downlink control information being generated based on one of (1) a first uplink allocation information indicating a first frequency block corresponding to a first plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and (2) a second uplink allocation information indicating a second frequency block corresponding to a second plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and a third frequency block corresponding to a third plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency, the second frequency block and the third frequency block being separated in frequency.