Abstract: Rate limiting systems and methods for regulating access to a shared network resource in a computing device accessed through an application programming interface. A rate limit associated with a shared network resource is assigned to a user for a time period. During the time period, access to the shared network resource is granted or denied repeatedly based upon the rate limit; a cost is calculated using a cost function; and, the rate limit is updated based upon the cost.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a wireless communication method and relaxed system and wireless terminal devices arranged for communication between first (304, 404) and second (306, 408) wireless terminal devices by way of direct communication, for example by way of a D2D link, in a network environment, the method and system and, as appropriate, devices, being arranged to provide for the delivery of link-quality parameter information from at least one of the two terminal devices to the network for communications interaction by the network with communication between for the two terminals in direct communication.

Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a method and apparatus for transmitting information, a base station, and user equipment, the method including: determining transmission configuration information of an unlicensed spectrum, the transmission configuration information being used to indicate various data transmission starting positions within a preset time window; sending the transmission configuration information to user equipment; performing information transmission with the user equipment using a channel of the unlicensed spectrum according to the transmission configuration information. By employing the method for transmitting information as provided by the present disclosure, unlicensed spectrum resources may be effectively used to transmit information.

Abstract: A network node, wireless device and methods for co-phasing for beamforming using co-phasing matrices for wireless communications are provided. In one example, a network node for co-phasing in beamforming for transmissions is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry including a processor and a memory where the memory contains instructions executable by the processor to configure the network node to: obtain co-phasing information associated with a wireless device, generate at least two co-phasing matrices based on the co-phasing information, and apply the at least two co-phasing matrices to at least two resource structures.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a first communications device, a first carrier, where the first carrier is used to transmit a first message and a second message; obtaining, by the first communications device, a first transmission resource and a second transmission resource of the first carrier, where the first transmission resource is used to send the first message, the second transmission resource is used to send the second message, and the first transmission resource and the second transmission resource are different transmission resources; sending, by the first communications device, the first message on the first transmission resource by using a first wireless access technology; and sending, by the first communications device, the second message on the second transmission resource by using a second wireless access technology, where the first wireless access technology and the second wireless access technology are different inter-device direct communications technologies.

Abstract: Various solutions for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring enhancement 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 supported PDCCH monitoring capability to a network node. The apparatus may receive a PDCCH monitoring configuration compliant with the supported PDCCH monitoring capability from the network node. The apparatus may determine a monitoring budget based on the PDCCH monitoring configuration and the supported PDCCH monitoring capability. The apparatus may perform a PDCCH monitoring according to the monitoring budget.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One example method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) includes detecting a radio link failure (RLF) condition for a connection between the UE and a network over a first cell group and determining, in response to detecting the RLF condition, whether an air interface resource allocation is available for a signaling radio bearer (SRB) between the UE and the network over another cell group. The method also includes selecting, based at least in part on the determination, one of a plurality of RLF procedures. In some examples, the UE may select a first RLF procedure that fully releases radio resources when no SRB is available and a different, second RLF procedure that partially when an SRB is available between the UE and the network over a second cell group.

Abstract: The present specification provides a method for transmitting a grant related to sidelink transmission of a remote UE, through a UE-to-network relay in a wireless communication system. A method performed by a relay UE comprises the steps of: receiving a first control message related to a grant from a serving base station, wherein the first control message includes an identifier for identifying a remote UE, first control information related to a time point of monitoring the grant, and second control information related to a time point at which the relay UE relays the grant to the remote UE; receiving the grant from the serving base station on the basis of the first control information; and transmitting the grant to the remote UE on the basis of the identifier and the second control information.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving uplink resource configuration information including information about at least two uplink reference points, and one uplink reference point corresponds to one uplink carrier; and determining, based on the uplink resource configuration information, an uplink carrier on which an uplink transmission resource is located.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for determining resource elements REs used for Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission schemes. The techniques generally include determining, by a User Equipment (UE), a set of data REs used for Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) operation. The determination is based on a CoMP scheme and data REs available to particular base stations involved in the CoMP operation. The technique further includes processing data received via the CoMP operation on the determined set of data REs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for indications of demodulation reference signal port groups and phase-tracking reference signal port indications. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A data communication method and a related apparatus are provided, and the data communication method includes: constructing, by an access device, a beacon frame, where the beacon frame includes a newly added field, and the newly added field represents multiple data guard interval lengths supported by the access device; and broadcasting, by the access device, the beacon frame, so that a terminal selects an available guard interval length matching a data guard interval length supported by the terminal from the beacon frame, and performs data communication with the access device by using the available guard interval length. By using the present invention, data communication between the access device and the terminal can be implemented when the access device supports multiple data guard interval lengths.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a radio link control (RLC) entity associated with a cell group of the terminal, information about a number of retransmissions of a packet, identifying whether packet duplication is activated, based on information indicating that the number of retransmissions of the packet reaches a maximum number of retransmissions of the packet, and transmitting, to a base station, a message indicating a failure of retransmission of the packet, based on a result of the identifying.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for remaining minimum system information (RMSI) reception. The method can include receiving a PBCH carrying a beam index (SBI) and indicating configuration information of a sequence of RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasions. The PBCH is carried in an SS block of an SS block burst set. The configuration information indicates an RMSI offset (D) between a timing reference and a slot carrying the RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasion at the beginning of the sequence of the RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasions, and an RMSI interval (T) between two RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasions in the sequence of RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasions. The method further includes determining a timing of a first RMSI PDCCII monitoring occasion in the sequence of RMSI PDCCH monitoring occasion according to the SBI and the configuration information.

Abstract: A resource assignment method, a related device, and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal from a network device, a resource assignment indication used to indicate frequency domain resource assignment, where the resource assignment indication is used to indicate a plurality of first resource units assigned to the terminal and that the plurality of first resource units are categorized into one or more groups, where a quantity of first resource units in each group is a product of powers of 2, 3, and 5; and performing, by the terminal, discrete Fourier transform based on the plurality of first resource units. According to the resource assignment method, flexible resource assignment can be performed, and spectrum utilization can be improved.

Abstract: Techniques are described to provide for the ability to combine policies in a manner that utilized policy purposes to generate a combined policy. In one example, a method includes obtaining, at a network entity of a network, a plurality of policies, wherein each policy is associated with a policy purpose defined by a policy originator; combining the plurality of policies by the network entity to generate a combined policy, wherein the combining is performed based on a ranking of policy purposes; and enforcing the combined policy at one or more policy enforcement entities of the network for one or more packet flows communicated between a client and the network.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for transmitting downlink feedback information, a base station, and a terminal device, so as to ensure that the base station correctly receives the downlink feedback information sent by the terminal device, thereby effectively improving a transmission success rate of the downlink feedback information. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the method includes: sending, by the base station, indication information to the terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a target time-frequency resource location, the target time-frequency resource location is a time-frequency resource location at which the terminal device sends the downlink feedback information, and the downlink feedback information is used to feed back a reception status of downlink data that should be received by the terminal device; and receiving, by the base station, the downlink feedback information sent by the terminal device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for data transmission. The method includes: a terminal device receiving a first downlink control information (DCI) and second DCI scrambled with different radio network temporary identities (RNTIs), the first DCI comprising a first resource allocation information for a first channel, and the first resource allocation information indicating a first resource region, and the second DCI comprising a second resource allocation information for the first channel, and the second resource allocation information indicating a second resource region; and the terminal device determining that the first channel scheduled by the second DCI is transmitted in a third resource region, the third resource region being a resource region, except an overlapping resource region between the first resource region and the second resource region, in the second resource region. Further disclosed are a terminal device and a network device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communications. A UE receives first information, the first information being used for indicating M DCI blind decoding(s); monitors a first-type radio signal respectively on each of S sub-band(s) in a first time-domain resource; and performs at most M1 DCI blind decoding(s) of the M DCI blind decoding(s) on the S sub-band(s) in the first time-domain resource. Herein, the first-type radio signal detected on the S sub-band(s) is used for determining the M1 DCI blind decoding(s) out of the M DCI blind decoding(s). The above method allows the base station to make dynamic adjustments to the UE's blind decoding on PDCCH resources according to LBT results, ensuring that sufficient PDCCH resources are available and not too many PDSCH resources are preempted, and that excessive blind decodings can be avoided.

Abstract: A method for packet detection in a wireless communication network employing time based scheduling of packets. The method is performed by a packet receiver in the wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a packet from a packet transmitter. The packet includes a preamble that is composed of a single orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and represented by a sequence of samples. T least part of the preamble is received within a packet detection window. Packet detection is performed in order to find a start of the packet only on those samples received within the packet detection window.