Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for control signaling for an unlicensed spectrum band. A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a downlink control information (DCI) format and determining a type of channel access procedure based on a field in the DCI format. The type of channel access procedure is one of: a first type of channel access procedure that includes a random time duration for sensing; a second type of channel access procedure that includes a positive and deterministic time duration for sensing; or a third type of channel access procedure that does not include a time duration for sensing. The method further includes performing a channel access procedure based on the determined type of channel access procedure and transmitting an uplink transmission on a channel with shared spectrum channel access after performing the channel access procedure.

Abstract: A node in a communications network is configured to use a reinforcement learning agent to manage a process associated with the communications network. The node is further configured to adjust a value of an exploration rate associated with training of the reinforcement learning agent, based on a performance indicator associated with the managed process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing discovery within a D2D communications is provided herein. During operation, a first device will determine an identification of its own network slice, and an identification of a network slice other devices operate on. Only devices operating on the same network slice as the first device are allowed for D2D communication with the first device.

Abstract: System and method for sharing data about an object in accordance to various aspects. A mobile device comprises: a memory; a sensor to detect an object and generate data about the object; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to: receive the data from the sensor; determine a relevance of the data; and choose an interface for transmitting the data based on the relevance.

Abstract: A method by which a first device performs wireless communication is presented. The method can comprise the steps in which: a first device performs at least one sidelink transmission to a second device; negative acknowledgement (NACK) information related to the at least one sidelink transmission is received from the second device; and whether to transmit a message for requesting a retransmission resource is determined on the basis of a preset latency time threshold value and a remaining latency budget related to the at least one sidelink transmission.

Abstract: A 100BASE-TX transceiver includes a receive (RX) circuit, a transmit (TX) circuit, a clock generator circuit, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit, and a clock multiplexer circuit. The RX circuit receives an input data to generate an RX data. The TX circuit transmits a TX data according to a TX clock, to generate an output data. The clock generator circuit generates an output clock. The CDR circuit generates an RX recovered clock according to the RX data. The clock multiplexer circuit receives the output clock and the RX recovered clock, and outputs the TX clock that is selected from the output clock and the RX recovered clock.

Abstract: A radio terminal (2) controls state transitions of the radio terminal (2) among first to third RRC states. In addition, if the radio terminal (2) is in the second RRC state, if a current cell that the radio terminal (2) has camped on is different from a first cell in which a state transition from the first RRC state to the second RRC state was performed, and if the current cell satisfies a predetermined condition, the radio terminal (2) allows the radio terminal (2) to transmit data to be transmitted in the current cell by a first transmission procedure in which the radio terminal (2) transmits uplink data before entering the first RRC state.

Abstract: A user equipment includes circuitry which selects a random access preamble sequence, and a transmitter which transmits the random access preamble sequence to a base station in a frequency bandwidth of an unlicensed band, and performs at least one of a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation, the circuitry selects a first sequence as the random access preamble sequence, the first sequence having a length longer than a length of a random preamble sequence used for a licensed band, and the transmitter transmits the first sequence in the frequency bandwidth of the unlicensed band. In the second operation, the circuitry selects a second sequence as the random access preamble sequence, the second sequence having a length equal to the length of a random preamble sequence used for the licensed band, and the transmitter transmits the second sequence with repetitions in the frequency bandwidth of the unlicensed band.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, in a first symbol in time of a slot, an automatic gain control (AGC) signal, wherein the UE transmits the AGC signal at a first power over a first frequency bandwidth; and transmitting, in a plurality of symbols of a mini-slot of the slot, a second AGC signal and data, wherein the UE refrains from transmitting between the first symbol and the plurality of symbols.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a wireless communication circuit, and a processor operably connected to the wireless communication circuit, wherein the processor is configured to identify a first channel for communication with an access point (AP) based on wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) and a second channel for direct communication with an external electronic device based on Wi-Fi direct, reconfigure a capability of the electronic device related to direct communication with the external electronic device when the first channel and the second channel are different, and transmit information about the reconfigured capability of the electronic device to the external electronic device through the wireless communication circuit.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are provided. A length of a circular buffer associated with rate matching is identified. Rate matching is performed for a code block based on the circular buffer. The data is transmitted based on the rate matching. In case that the rate matching is limited buffer rate matching (LBRM), the length of the circular buffer associated with the LBRM is determined based on a value obtained by dividing a reference transport block size (TBS) by a product of a number of code blocks and a reference code rate for the LBRM.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for a first device to perform wireless communication. The method may include a step for: determining whether location information about the first device is valid; and transmitting information, pertaining to whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the distance between terminals is disabled, to a second device through sidelink control information (SCI) on the basis of whether the location information about the first device is valid.

Abstract: A sensor integrated circuit (IC) includes a sensing element configured to sense a parameter associated with a target, a processor coupled to the sensing element and configured to generate a sensed signal indicative of the parameter associated with the target, and an output module coupled to receive the sensed signal. The output module is configured to transmit absolute data on a message line at a first rate and transmit incremental data on one or more index lines at a second rate, wherein the second rate is faster than the first rate, wherein the incremental data comprises data associated with changes in the absolute data and wherein an edge or a pulse is used to indicate an incremental change has occurred in the absolute data.

Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing data communications services such as voice-over-IP (VOIP). According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more VOIP servers configured and arranged to route VoIP calls to and from users of a plurality of customer accounts. Each customer account has a respective plurality of users and a respective settings file. For each of the customer accounts, a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the VOIP servers, records an audio portion of a VoIP call to or from a user of the customer account in response to the VOIP call satisfying a set of recording criteria specified in the settings file for the customer account. The recording criteria for at least one of the customer accounts includes account-level settings for selecting VoIP calls to be recorded and sets of user-level settings indicating criteria for preventing recording of VOIP calls of the individual users.

Abstract: An apparatus in a network node has circuitry configured for causing a scheduling of an uplink transmission for a first user equipment and a downlink reception for a second user equipment on at least one resource, wherein the at least one resource is at least partially shared between the first user equipment and second user equipment. The apparatus has circuitry configured for providing an instruction, to the first user equipment, to transmit a first signal within the at least one resource. The apparatus also has circuitry configured for providing an instruction, to the second user equipment, to detect the first signal within the at least one resource. The apparatus having further circuitry configured for receiving information, from the second user equipment, wherein the information includes an indication of whether the second user equipment has detected the first signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for WTRU-initiated beam recovery including beam switching and/or beam sweeping. A WTRU may be configured to detect a beam failure condition, identify a candidate beam for resolving the beam failure condition, and send a beam failure recovery request to a network entity. The WTRU may include the candidate beam in the beam failure recovery request and may receive a response from the network entity regarding the request and/or a solution for the beam failure condition. WTRU-initiated beam recovery may be used to resolve radio link failures and improve system performance by avoiding the necessity to perform an acquisition procedure. Additionally, beam sweeping may be performed at a sub-time unit level to provide a fast sweeping mechanism.

Abstract: This application provides a network node selection method and apparatus. An SMF network element obtains transmission capability information of an access network device, and selects, for a terminal device based on the transmission capability information of the access network device, a UPF network element that supports at least one transmission capability included in the transmission capability information. In this process, the SMF network element obtains a transmission capability of the access network device, and selects the UPF network element based on the transmission capability of the access network device. The selected UPF network element supports the transmission capability used by the access network device, so that data can be successfully transmitted between the access network device and the UPF network element. Therefore, a data transmission success rate is improved.

Abstract: Methods and devices for a base station acting as a primary cell to perform dual spectrum sharing (DSS) with a first user equipment device (UE) over a 5G NR connection and a second UE over an LTE connection. The first UE establishes the 5G NR connection with the primary cell and one or more secondary cells. One of the secondary cells is configured in the 5G NR connection to provide downlink control information to the UE for the primary cell, to avoid collisions by the primary cell with LTE control transmissions.

Abstract: A resource exclusion method includes: determining at least one target resource, where each target resource includes at least one time domain resource; and in a case where the target resource conflicts with a reserved resource of a second terminal in time domain, performing resource exclusion based on a conflict resolution method, and determining a candidate resource of the first terminal or a reserved resource of the first terminal; where the conflict resolution method includes at least one of a conflict resolution method predefined in a protocol, a conflict resolution method preconfigured by a network, a conflict resolution method configured by a network, or a conflict resolution method configured by a terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus includes transmitting circuitry for transmitting radio signals, receiving circuitry for receiving radio signals and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate data to be transmitted to another apparatus via a first radio link without passing through a base station. The first radio link has a first direction from the apparatus to the other apparatus. Then, the processing circuitry determines a first monitoring configuration associated with the first radio link in the first direction. Then, the transmitting circuitry transmits the data to the other apparatus via the first radio link in the first direction with the first radio link being monitored based on the first monitoring configuration.