Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for fast beam indication. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a number (M) of transmission configuration indicator (TCI)state code points activated by a medium access control element (MAC CE) and, if the UE is configured to be indicated TCI state code points on DL control information (DCI) and M>1, receiving the DCI that indicates at least one TCI state code point from the M TCI state code points and determining a TCI state to apply to at least one of downlink (DL) channels and uplink (UL) channels. The method further includes updating one or more spatial filters for at least one of the DL channels and the UL channels based on the determined TCI state and at least one of receiving and transmitting the DL channels and the UL channels, respectively, based on the updated one or more spatial filters.

Abstract: A base station and/or a wireless device may communicate using a plurality of transmission beams. Multiple transmission beams may be used for transmission such that a message may be sent via different transmission beams. Multiple transmission beams may be used for sending multiple repetitions of the message or for sending different portions of the message.

Abstract: The present specification proposes technical features for improving various fields included in a PPDU. For example, a control signal field included in the PPDU may include a plurality of content channels and may be transmitted through a plurality of frequency segments. The plurality of content channels may include actual allocation information regarding a resource unit allocated to a specific frequency segment. Further, it may include preset information, not actual allocation information, regarding a resource unit allocated to another frequency segment. The preset information may be variously configured, for example, may be embodied as a zero user field.

Abstract: An embodiment is directed to switchover operations with a mobile virtualized network device in a mobile device. The mobile virtualized hardware switchover operations may be used to selectively and temporarily provide virtualized control-plane operations to the data-plane of a non-redundant network device undergoing an upgrade or a reboot of its control plane. A non-redundant network device may operate hitless, or near hitless, operation even when its control plane is unavailable.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for filtering Ethernet device source addresses for loop avoidance in a cellular communications system. Embodiments of a method performed by a User Plane Function (UPF) in a core network of a cellular communications system and corresponding embodiments of a UPF are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a UPF in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises obtaining a Medium Access Control (MAC) address that is reachable over a particular Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session. The method further comprises installing, at the UPF, a filtering rule that prevents Ethernet frames having the MAC address as a source address from being delivered by the UPF via downlink on the particular PDU session. In this manner, loopback of Ethernet frames on the PDU session is avoided.

Abstract: An operation method of a base station in a communication system may comprise: transmitting first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information indicating use of a first CQI table among CQI tables; transmitting a first reference signal to the terminal; and receiving first CSI from the terminal, the first CSI including a first CQI index selected within the first CQI table based on the first reference signal, wherein the CQI tables include the first CQI table and a second CQI table, and a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the first CQI table is identical to a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the second CQI table.

Abstract: Provided are a CQI feedback enhancement method, a CQI feedback enhancement device, a CQI feedback enhancement system, a UE and a base station. The CQI feedback enhancement method includes: a base station sends downlink traffic data to a UE; the UE decodes the downlink traffic data; first information is sent to the base station in a case where an error result is obtained by decoding the downlink traffic data, where the first information includes an NACK instruction and an aperiodic CQI, or the first information includes one NACK state of multiple NACK states and different NACK states correspond to different CQIs; and the base station receives the first information.

Abstract: A beam failure recovery request sending method includes: after a beam failure event occurs in a terminal, searching for a candidate beam; and after at least one candidate beam is found, using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) to a base station, the PUCCH resource comprising a PUCCH resource pre-allocated to the terminal by the base station or a PUCCH resource in a preset format. The present disclosure achieves the purpose of transmitting a BFRQ using a PUCCH resource, making the time delay of transmitting a BFRQ small.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to a wireless network device configured for adjustable positioning are described herein. In an example, a network device comprises a body and a bendable element configured to carry electrical power to the body and components therein. The body houses an antenna and transceiver configured for wireless communication. The bendable element, attached to the body of the network device, is configured for adjustable positioning such that a position of the bendable element is substantially maintained when the positioning force is removed. A facing of the antenna within the body may be based on the positioning of the bendable element.

Abstract: A method for providing uplink link adaptation in 5G base stations is presented.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may determine, from a plurality of beams associated with the first wireless node, a set of suitable uplink beams and a set of suitable downlink beams, wherein the set of suitable UL beams and the set of suitable DL beams are suitable for full duplex communications, and transmit, to a second wireless node, an indication of the set of suitable uplink beams and the set of suitable downlink beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may transmit, to a second node on a beamformed link from the first node to the second node, a first signal, wherein the first node and the second node are associated with common timing; determine whether a second signal, based at least in part on the first signal, is received on a beamformed link from the second node to the first node; and transmit a third signal based at least in part on receiving the second signal or perform a sidelink beam failure recovery procedure based at least in part on determining that the second signal is not received. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a first transmission and reception point (TRP), includes receiving a message indicating a measurement of a reference signal (RS) transmitted in a first band to a wireless device or one or more features of a second band estimated by the wireless device. The first TRP may operate in the second band not overlapping the first band, the one or more features comprise one or more of a channel characteristic, a signal strength, or a beam direction of the second band. The method also includes adjusting one or more parameters of the second band in response to receiving the message. The one or more parameters may include one or both of a channel or a beam direction. The method further includes transmitting signals to a user equipment (UE) in the second band according to the one or more adjusted parameters.

Abstract: In operation, the UE in the cell (SpCell/SCell) may be configured to operate with beam group specific BFRs, cell-level BFRs, or combinations of them under a beam failure configuration that is determined according to various rules. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) and a UE is disclosed. The method includes determining a beam failure configuration for a serving cell, the beam failure configuration including at least one of a beam failure parameter of a beam group or a beam failure parameter of a cell; and detecting, in the serving cell based at least in part on the beam failure configuration, a beam failure recovery (BFR) based at least in part on the beam failure configuration. The beam failure configuration is determined based on various rules that control the operation of the BFR.

Abstract: An uplink signal transmission method includes: transmitting a target uplink signal on the basis of a target transmission pattern, wherein the target transmission pattern is related to at least one of the uplink beamforming capability of a terminal device or the number of retransmissions of the target uplink signal.

Abstract: There are provided an information collecting device configured to collect a frame A transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is an evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target and a frame B transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is a non-evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the non-evaluation target, and extract radio information on communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations from a header of a corresponding one of the frames A and B, and a wireless LAN communication quality estimation device configured to acquire, from the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target, information on the number of currently connected wireless LAN terminals, acquire, from the information collecting device, the radio information on the communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations, and analyze

Abstract: Wireless communication techniques that include techniques for allocating resources for peak reduction tones are discussed. A UE may receive from a base station an indication of one or more frequency resources that are allocated for uplink communication. The UE may also receive from the base station an indication of a subset of the one or more frequency resources allocated for uplink communication that are also allocated for transmission of one or more peak reduction tones. The UE may transmit to the base station at least one peak reduction tone on at least one frequency resource of the subset of the one or more frequency resources. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message carrying an indicator to indicate a selection of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource set, wherein the message is received from a gNB. The second circuitry may be operable to generate an SRS transmission, based on the indicator. The apparatus may comprise an interface to send the SRS transmission to a transmission circuitry.

Abstract: A first method comprises transmitting (101) a preamble in a first time interval in a first frequency resource, transmitting (103) a first portion or a first copy of data in the first frequency resource in a second time interval, and transmitting (105) a second portion or second copy of the data in a second frequency resource in the second time interval. The second time interval succeeds the first time interval and the second frequency resource is separate from the first frequency resource. A second method comprises listening (111) for transmission of a preamble, transmitting (115) data in a second time interval succeeding a first time interval upon determining that the preamble was not received in the first time interval, and refraining (113) from transmitting data in the second time interval upon determining that the preamble was received in the first time interval.

Abstract: To minimize a number of uplink/downlink conflicts when at least some of the subframes within a transmission frame may be flexible allocated either to uplink or to downlink, a network node, which is configured to provide wireless access to user devices in a cell, is configured to determine in the cell and its neighboring cells uplink/downlink ratios of at least the flexible subframes, and based on the uplink/downlink ratios, determine, from a look-up-table, optimal link direction assignments at least for the flexible subframes, and to cause transmissions using the optimal link direction assignments.