Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing extension of customer local area networks (“LANs”) and/or implementing isolated service overlays over a network. In some embodiments, a network service point that is located external to a demarcation point at each of a plurality of customer premises might establish a connection between a service provider network and a customer LAN, which has already been established within a customer premises. The system subsequently extends the customer LAN, via this connection, to span between the network service point and the customer premises. Alternatively, or additionally, the system might establish two or more isolated service overlays across the customer LAN between the network service point and the customer premises, each of the two or more isolated service overlays having network traffic that is isolated from network traffic transmitted along another of the two or more isolated service overlays.

Abstract: A base station and user equipment with prioritized transmission considerations are provided. The base station generates an RRC configuration message for a user equipment. The RRC configuration message includes a first information element regarding a PHY layer, wherein the first information element is related to a DCI format for a specific indication, and the specific indication is related to a prioritized transmission mode. The RRC configuration message further includes a second information element regarding a MAC layer, wherein the second information element defines a transmission restriction of each of a plurality of logical channels, and at least one of the transmission restrictions corresponds to the prioritized transmission mode. The base station further transmits the RRC configuration message to the user equipment. The user equipment receives the RRC configuration message from the base station and reads the first information element and the second information element from the RRC configuration message.

Abstract: A method for multiplexing UCI performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a BS, an RRC configuration to configure a sequence that is selected from either a first sequence or a second sequence; receiving, from the BS, a DCI message including an indicator; determining a value corresponding to the indicator based on the configured sequence; and multiplexing a UCI message based on the determined value.

Abstract: This application discloses a network slice selection method and apparatus, to resolve a prior-art problem of large transmission load on a network side. The method performed by a core network device includes: receiving a first request message sent by a terminal device, where the first request message is used to request to allocate, to the terminal device, a network slice that provides a business service; sending a query message to a SSF, where the query message carries user information of the terminal device, and is used to query for a network slice that is capable of providing a business service for the terminal device; and after receiving slice information of the network slice that is capable of providing the business service required by the terminal device and that is determined based on the user information, forwarding the first request message to the network slice corresponding to the slice information.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) NodeB (gNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to encode one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE). The one or more CSI-RS signals comprise a complex sequence mapped to a resource element (RE) such that all CSI-RS ports use an identical sequence for the one or more CSI-RS signals in a symbol. In other embodiments, the gNB comprises one or more baseband processors to encode a scrambling identity (ID) configuration for one or more demodulation reference signals (DMRS), wherein the scrambling ID configuration indicates one of two scrambling IDs to be signaled to a UE.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting or receiving a sounding reference signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information for transmission of the SRS, wherein the configuration information includes one or more SRS resources for transmission of the SRS, a cyclic shift (CS) hopping pattern for the SRS, and CS relation information about whether CS hopping patterns of the SRS and a PUCCH are related; and transmitting the SRS to the base station, through at least one SRS resource among the one or more SRS resources, wherein a CS value applied to the SRS is configured on the basis of the CS hopping pattern for the SRS and the CS relation information.

Abstract: An adaptive two-stage downlink control channel structure is utilized for control channel transmission with code block group (CBG) retransmission for 5G and other next generation wireless systems. In an aspect, the first stage of the two-stage downlink control channel structure utilizes a defined format (e.g., having a fixed length) and provides information that is employable to determine the length and/or coding scheme of the second stage. In another aspect, the second stage of the two-stage downlink control channel structure utilizes a variable length/size to indicate the CBGs that are scheduled to be retransmitted (e.g., by employing a variable length bitmap). As an example, the length/size is varied based on a length/size of a transport block, from which the CBGs have been generated.

Abstract: A method for transmitting an RRC message includes: a target buffer report corresponding to a target SRB reported by a terminal is received, where the target SRB is an SRB for transmitting a target RRC message to be transmitted by the terminal; resource configuration is performed for the target SRB according to the target buffer report to acquire a resource configuration result; and the resource configuration result is transmitted to the terminal, so that the terminal determines a target RAN slice corresponding to the target SRB from among a plurality of RAN slices pre-configured for the terminal according to the resource configuration result, and transmits the target RRC message through the target RAN slice. As such, an RRC message may be transmitted through a plurality of RAN slices.

Abstract: A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes the UE receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration including a plurality of repetition lists that are associated with a plurality of Downlink Control Information (DCI) formats. Each of the plurality of repetition lists includes a plurality of values, and each of the plurality of values indicates the number of repetitions for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission. The method further includes the UE receiving DCI having a particular DCI format for scheduling the PUSCH transmission. The DCI includes an indicator indicating one of the plurality of values included in one of the plurality of repetition lists. The one of the plurality of repetition lists is associated with the particular DCI format. The method further includes the UE performing the PUSCH transmission for a number of times, where the number of times is determined by the one of the plurality of values.

Abstract: Various aspects include a method of providing, by a network to a UE device, a transmission grant. The method includes initiating a process to provide the transmission grant for a transmission within a particular time. The method includes verifying that there is no cancellation indication that overlaps the particular time. The method includes providing, based on the verification, the transmission grant to the UE device. The method includes determining whether there is no transmission that overlaps with a cancellation window associated with a monitoring occasion, and based on the determination, skipping the monitoring occasion. Also disclosed a system for providing a transmission grant to the UE device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for resource selection supporting user equipment (UE)-shared multicast feedback. In some systems, a UE and a base station may support multicast communications. The base station may configure a set of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources that the UE may use for multicast feedback messages. The base station may transmit an indication of the set of PUCCH resources to the UE, and the UE may determine to use a PUCCH resource of the set of PUCCH resources based on one or more indications from the base station. The UE may fail to receive a multicast message from the base station and may transmit a UE-shared negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback message. The base station may re-transmit the multicast message according to a set of transmission parameters that is based on which PUCCH resource was used by one or more UEs for multicast NACK feedback.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may perform listen before talk (LBT) procedures for licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. The LBT procedures may use different monitoring periods. The wireless device may transmit transport blocks (TBs) via the LAA cells.

Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of one or more configured grants of an unlicensed cell. The wireless device transmits, based on a configured grant of the one or more configured grants, one or more code block groups of a transport block and a code block group transmission information. The code block group transmission information indicates a presence of the one or more code block groups for the transport block. The wireless device receives a downlink control information comprising a first field and a second field. The first field indicates that the base station received the code block group transmission information. The second field indicates hybrid automatic repeat request feedbacks for the one or more code block groups.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may perform listen before talk (LBT) procedures for licensed assisted access (LAA) cells. The LBT procedures may use different monitoring periods. The wireless device may transmit transport blocks (TBs) via the LAA cells.

Abstract: A communication system and method is disclosed, applicable to the mobile communication using pilot-free channel estimation. In the uplink multiple access, the present invention utilizes the gain division multiple access (GDMA) technology to allow multiple users to share the same resource by utilizing the knowledge of different channel coefficients (channel gains) to distinguish signals transmitted by different users when the transmissions are over different and independent fading channels. Without using pilot signals for channel estimation, the present invention uses the clustering algorithm and the geometrical configuration of the superimposed signals for the superimposed signal sequence received by the base station to implement the estimation of channel gains corresponding to multiple users, and, according to the estimated channel gains, the GDMA technology is utilized to recover the original message transmitted by each user.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for consecutive data packet feedback. One method includes receiving a first set of consecutive data packets. The method includes transmitting feedback corresponding to the first set of consecutive data packets, wherein the feedback comprises: an error indication in response each data packet in the first set of consecutive data packets failing to be received correctly; a non-error indication in response to at least one data packet in the first set of consecutive data packets being received correctly; a counter value that indicates a consecutive number of data packet failures; or some combination thereof.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a requirement negotiation for an error vector magnitude (EVM) (or other metrics for measuring transmission signal quality) for ranging and/or positioning operation(s). Some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more processors transmit, during a negotiation phase of a ranging operation, an initial request frame to a second electronic device, wherein the initial request frame comprises a first indication of an error vector magnitude (EVM) requirement. The one or more processors receive an initial response frame from the second electronic device and determine a second indication of the EVM requirement based at least in part on the received initial response frame. The one or more processors implement a measurement phase of the ranging operation in accordance with the second indication of the EVM requirement.

Abstract: A method and a device allowing a terminal to receive a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, configure a search space set constructed in a hierarchical structure, and can monitor control channel candidates in the configured search space set. Particularly, when the hierarchical structure is constructed, a control channel candidate of a lower aggregation level (AL) in the search space set is randomly arranged on the basis of a control channel candidate of a top AL in the search space set, wherein a portion or the entire area of the control channel candidate of the lower AL can be arranged so as to overlap the control channel candidate of the top AL.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for random access are provided. The method includes: a network device receives a plurality of random access signals on a plurality of predetermined resources, wherein one predetermined resource of the plurality of predetermined resources corresponds to one random access signal of the plurality of random access signals; the network device determines a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) according to the plurality of predetermined resources; and the network device transmits a random access response of the plurality of random access signals scrambled through the RNTI.

Abstract: In some examples, an example method to minimize asymmetric routing at a network node may include maintaining a flow table including one or more records, each record indicating a packet flow and a corresponding tunnel, receiving a data packet to process at a network node, and determining whether to process the data packet as a follower node. The method may also include, responsive to a determination to process the data packet as a follower node, determining whether there is an entry in the flow table for a packet flow associated with the received packet, and, responsive to a determination that there is an entry in the flow table for the packet flow, transmitting the received data packet through a tunnel corresponding to the packet flow.