Abstract: A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method, implemented at one of the nodes, includes: collecting a set of first data packets during a first time period, the set including at least one data packet received from one or more first nodes in the network; obtaining a plurality of encoded data packets, each one of the plurality of encoded data packets being generated by combining two or more first data packets of the set using network coding; determining a mapping of the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to one or more neighbouring nodes connected to the node; and transmitting the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to the one or more neighbouring nodes according to the determined mapping.

Abstract: Systems and methods for timeline representations of trip phases of a mobile vehicle are described. A method may include receiving operational events associated with a voyage of the mobile vehicle. The operational events may include events such as take-off, landing, door open, door closed, engine started, or other types of operational events. Each operational event may have a corresponding event time at which the event occurred or was detected. The method may include receiving network metric values for network communication metrics associated with a network service on the mobile vehicle. Each network metric value may have a corresponding value time at which the metric was measured or detected. The operational events and network communication metrics may be displayed in a time-aligned manner on a timeline representation over a time range indicated by a user.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine whether a first feedback message received from the second WLAN device includes HARQ acknowledgement information or non-HARQ acknowledgment information. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message having a multi-station Block ACK (M-BA) frame format that includes HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device in response to determining the first feedback message includes the HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a non-HARQ frame in response to determining the first feedback message includes non-HARQ acknowledgement information.

Abstract: A beam indication method and apparatus and a system. The method includes: receiving activation signaling by a terminal equipment, the activation signaling activating at least one transmission; and transmitting or receiving the at least one transmission by the terminal equipment based on an understanding that: before receiving deactivation signaling or a next time of activation signaling, all transmissions activated by the activation signaling use identical spatial domain filters or transmission hypotheses, or use respective spatial domain filters or transmission hypotheses determined by dynamically interpreting the activation signaling.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for sending an indication of a common beam for communicating between a network entity and a group of user equipments (UEs). A method that may be performed by a UE generally includes receiving, from a network entity, an indication of a common beam for communicating between the network entity and a group of UEs that includes the UE. The method generally includes communicating with the network using the common beam.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) engaged in a positioning session with a transmission-reception point (TRP) receives, during a first state, a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, receives a first association between at least one SRS resource of the one or more SRS resources and at least one random access channel (RACH) resource of one or more RACH resources, switches out of the first state during an ongoing positioning session, and transmits, while outside the first state, at least a first signal of a RACH procedure to the TRP using transmission properties based on the first association between the at least one SRS resource and the at least one RACH resource.

Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE). A channel state information (CSI) report trigger can be received from a second UE, and a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) can be received from the second UE in a same slot as the CSI report trigger. A CSI report can be transmitted to the second UE based on the CSI-RS, the CSI report including information identifying the CSI-RS on which the CSI report is based. The UE that triggered the CSI report can determine the CSI-RS on which the CSI report is based using the information included in the CSI report.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS). The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the sidelink CSI-RS, a CSI report on a physical sidelink feedback channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method is performed by a base station centralized unit (CU) node that is in communication, using a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP), with a user equipment (UE) via one or more intermediate integrated access backhaul (IAB) nodes of a radio access network (RAN). The CU node receives one or more PDCP packets over a radio link control (RLC) layer utilizing hop-by-hop automatic repeat request (ARQ) at each intermediate IAB node. In response to a trigger, the CU node sends an uplink (UL) data delivery status report to at least one of the intermediate IAB nodes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU transmission method and a corresponding PPDU transmission apparatus. Application of the method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention enables a receive end to quickly determine the starting position of the feature signal sequence by means of blind detection, and ensures that the receive end quickly completes data processing and status switching.

Abstract: A radio station (2) transmits configuration information (501) to a radio terminal (1). The configuration information (501) indicates, on a cell-by-cell basis, at least one specific cell on which the radio terminal (1) is allowed to perform at least one of data transmission and data reception on a radio bearer used for uplink transmission or downlink transmission or both via a common Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer (402). As a result, in a radio architecture that provides tight interworking of two different Radio Access Technologies (RATs), it is for example possible to allow an eNB to indicate, to a radio terminal (UE), a specific cell on which the UE should perform uplink transmission.

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for automatically mitigating excessive pings transmitted by a User Equipment (“UE”) through a wireless telecommunications network by instructing the UE to take remedial action and/or by modifying the UE's access to the network. A given UE transmitting excessive pings may be automatically identified based on dynamic thresholds which may vary based on factors such as network congestion, and the instructions may include instructions to shut down, restart, or send fewer pings. The access may be modified by modifying subscription information for the UE at a subscriber information repository.

Abstract: This application provides a downstream packet sending method, a downstream packet forwarding method, a downstream packet sending apparatus, and a downstream packet forwarding apparatus. The downstream packet sending method in this application includes: configuring a downstream forwarding path of a downstream packet for a terminal device; generating a source MAC address based on the downstream forwarding path, where the source MAC address is used to indicate the downstream forwarding path; and sending the downstream packet to a forwarding switch, where the downstream packet includes the source MAC address. This application can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and simplify network traffic.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One or more reference signals may be transmitted by a user equipment (UE) that may be used by a base station for channel estimation and determination of one or more parameters to be used for subsequent uplink transmission of the UE. The base station may transmit an indication of uplink transmission parameters in an uplink grant that is transmitted to the UE. The UE may modify one or more subsequent reference signal transmissions based on the uplink grant received from the base station and a timing of the uplink grant relative to the one or more subsequent reference signal transmissions. The base station may determine a timing for the uplink grant based on a timing associated with the reference signal transmissions from the UE.

Abstract: Uplink leveling systems and methods for a distribution antenna are provided. An uplink leveling system includes at least one communication path between a base station point of interface and a remote antenna unit. A broadband measurement detector is communicatively coupled to measure signal power in the at least one communication path at the base station point of interface. A signal measurement receiver is communicatively coupled to measure signal power in the at least one communication path. A test signal generator is configured to generate a test signal in the at least one communication path in an uplink. At least one controller is configured to level the communication path in the uplink direction based at least in part on measurements by the broadband measurement detector and the signal measurement receiver in response to the generated test signal by the test signal generator.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a communication method and a communication device, and a random access method of a user equipment (UE), according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: sensing a random access trigger in a connected state; determining the type of the random access trigger when the random access trigger is sensed; and performing congestion control if the type of the random access trigger is a preset type.

Abstract: In one novel aspect, a plurality of synchronization signal (SS) anchors within a block of a contiguous spectrum is configured in a wireless network. Each SS anchor is a primary SS anchor or a secondary SS anchor. The UE performs an initial access by detecting a first primary SS anchor and receives one or more virtual carrier configurations with corresponding SS anchors within the block of the contiguous spectrum. In another novel aspect, the UE performs an initial access through a first RF band with a first bandwidth and a first center frequency, receives a switching signal to switch from the first RF band to a second RF band with a second bandwidth and a second center frequency, the second bandwidth is different from the first bandwidth, and performs a RF bandwidth adaptation from the first RF band to the second RF band based on the adaptation signal.

Abstract: A UE receives a first configuration identifier for generating downlink PRSs or CSI-RSs. The first configuration identifier is an integer in a first range that includes a second range in which a scrambling identifier for generating a CSI-RS is. The UE receives modulation symbols on a set of resource elements allocated for carrying reference signals in an OFDM symbol in a slot in a radio frame. The UE generates a seed of a pseudo-random sequence for deriving the reference signals on the set of resource elements based on a wrapping result of a first output of a function using the first configuration identifier as a parameter and an offset. A second output of the function using a second configuration identifier as a parameter is the same as the first output. The second configuration identifier is in the second range and corresponding to the first configuration identifier.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a base station, a method for data transmission/reception by a mobile terminal, and a method for data reception/transmission by a base station. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives a parameter defining a configuration for assigning to ports respective resources for carrying reference signals, the resources being grouped in a plurality of code division multiplexing, CDM, groups, and receives control information indicating one of the set of layer-to-port mapping combinations which is to be applied for arranging reference signals on ports of at least one CDM group for data transmission and/or reception, wherein the control information indicates a co-scheduling information for the at least one and/or at least a different CDM group of the plurality of CDM groups for the same data transmission and/or reception.

Abstract: A resource configuration method for switching, comprising: a first network access point determining configuration information for a switching resource pool with a second network access point; the first network access point sending the configuration information for the switching resource pool to a mobile station; the first network access point sending first instruction information to the mobile station, the first instruction information instructing the mobile station to communicate, using a switching resource from the switching resource pool, with at least one of the first network access point, the second network access point, and another mobile station. An embodiment of the present invention uses a property of predictable direction of a motion of the mobile station and introduces a switching resource concept to negotiate a switching resource between network access points in advance.