Abstract: A user terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that generates a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook containing only HARQ-ACK corresponding to a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), so that HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the PDSCH each SPS are ordered in accordance with a given rule, and a transmitting section that transmits an HARQ-ACK information bit corresponding to the HARQ-ACK codebook by using an uplink control channel resource based on an SPS corresponding to HARQ-ACK at a specific location in the order. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to feed back HARQ-ACK appropriately even when a plurality of SPSs is utilized.

Abstract: The implementations of the present disclosure relate to a wireless communication method and a communication device. The method comprises: if a first resource grant and a second resource grant have an overlapping portion, using the second resource grant in the overlapping portion to send or receive data, wherein the first resource grant is a dynamically scheduled resource grant, and the second resource grant is a configured resource grant.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes circuitry that determines a number of resource blocks forming a resource block group, which is a unit used to allocate a resource to the communication apparatus, in a first band or in a second band that is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded, and a subcarrier spacing for the second band is same or different from a subcarrier spacing for the first band; and a transceiver that is coupled to the circuitry and that communicates with a base station using the resource. One of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other, and the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band are values that are a power of two.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for beamforming in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to beamforming configurations for multicast communications. A transmitting device may transmit multicast data to multiple receiving devices, concurrently, via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The PDSCH may be preceded by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The PDCCH may provide scheduling information for the PDSCH, including a multicast beam associated with the PDSCH and a timing offset or delay between the PDCCH and the PDSCH. A receiving device may determine that the PDSCH contains multicast data based on an indication in the PDCCH. To receive the PDSCH, each receiving device may tune its antennas in a direction of the scheduled multicast beam or a default beam based on the delay between the PDCCH and the PDSCH.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for service indication via downlink control information (DCI) in which different services have a same DCI size. Techniques provide also that a DCI format may be indicated by a masking operation on a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI. The DCI may include an indicator field that may indicate the service of the associated operation. The indication may also be provided via different monitoring occasions of the DCI transmissions that are associated with different services. Different DCI search spaces also may be associated with different services and provide the service indication. Additionally or alternatively, different scrambling sequences used on all or a portion of control information or demodulation reference signal transmissions may be associated with different services.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for DMRS transmission. A method implemented at a terminal device comprises selecting, from a plurality of computer generated (CG) sequences, a CG sequence for an uplink channel modulated with a predetermined modulation technique. The method further comprises generating, based on the selected CG sequence, a DMRS sequence for the uplink channel. In addition, the method further comprises transmitting, over the uplink channel, the DMRS sequence to a network device. The embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a set of candidate CG sequences with low PAPR, good autocorrelation performance and good cross-correlation performance for generating DMRS sequences for ?/2-BPSK modulated PUSCH or PUCCH.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE), may receive a data transmission and determine a slot to transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the data transmission. The communication device may determine one or more HARQ feedback resources or one or more HARQ feedback resource sets in the slot to transmit the HARQ feedback, where the one or more hybrid automatic repeat request feedback resources or the one or more hybrid automatic repeat request feedback resource sets in the slot comprises a set of frequency resources associated with the slot, and transmit the HARQ feedback using the one or more HARQ feedback resources or the one or more HARQ feedback resource sets in the slot.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for applying a mechanism to signals, from different user equipments (UEs), multiplexed for UL transmission, such that the mechanism differentiates one UE's waveform from another UE's, even if the waveforms are on the same time resources. A method that may be performed by a UE includes determining a mechanism to allow the UE to share uplink (UL) resources with at least one other UE for UL transmission, applying the mechanism to at least one of RS symbols or information symbols to be multiplexed using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) before performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) for the UL transmission, and outputting a waveform for the UL transmission after performing the DFT and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT).

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method and apparatus to perform initiating a downlink association set and a hybrid automatic repeat request feedback associated to receiving a first downlink data on a first downlink burst (710); receiving a second downlink data on a second downlink burst, associating the receiving second downlink data to the downlink association set and hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the first acknowledgement timing value (720); and determining transmission timing for hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on a second acknowledgement timing value (730).

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method of sounding a plurality of stations (STAs) with mixed operating bandwidths using a null data packet (NDP), wherein the bandwidth of the NDP is wider than the bandwidth of one STA, including: grouping STAs of mixed operating bandwidth in one sounding sequence by a beamformer; transmitting a null data packet announcement (NDPA) to the STAs, wherein the NDPA indicates the requested partial bandwidth channel feedback for each STA by the beamformer; transmitting the wide-bandwidth NDP to the STAs by the beamformer; transmitting beamforming report poll (BFRP) frame to the STAs to trigger uplink transmission of channel feedback reports by the beamformer; and receiving by the beamformer a partial bandwidth channel feedback within the STA's operating bandwidth from the STAs; receiving and parsing channel feedback reports from the STAs used for following steered OFDMA transmissions by the beamformer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink message. When a first PUCCH message and a second PUCCH message are to be simultaneously transmitted over at least one first time unit, one of the PUCCH message and the second PUCCH message is transmitted and the other one is dropped. The first PUCCH message is a PUCCH message repeatedly transmitted over a plurality of second time units, the second PUCCH message is a PUCCH message transmitted over one second time unit or a PUCCH message transmitted over a plurality of second time units, and the second time unit includes a plurality of first time units.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient cross-carrier scheduling of multiple slots. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor coupled with the transceiver, the processor configured to cause the apparatus to transmit a first control signal to a remote unit, the first control signal indicating a maximum number of HARQ processes, and to transmit a second control signal to the remote unit, where the second control signal is transmitted on a first carrier and where the second control signal schedules a first number of slots on a second carrier. The processor aggregates every two or more of the scheduled first number of slots to a single HARQ process in response to the first number being larger than the maximum number of HARQ processes.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that enable a carrier aggregation of two or more carrier available carriers for uplink transmissions at a base station node. More specifically, a carrier aggregation controller may receive a resource allocation request from a base station node that is associated with an uplink transmission of user plane data from a client device. The carrier aggregation controller may determine a carrier aggregation for the uplink transmission and generate scheduling information for delivery to the base station node that is based at least in part on the carrier aggregation.

Abstract: Duplicated physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission is described for a wireless device with reduced peak-to-average power ratios (PAPR). One example includes obtaining a first sub-PPDU from to PPDU that includes a data field with data content. A second sub-PPDU may also be obtained by duplicating the PPDU including the data content of the PPDU. At least one of a phase rotation, a phase offset, or a phase ramp is applied to at least a portion of a second set of sub-carrier of a wideband channel. The first sub-PPDU is transmitted on a first set of sub-carriers of the wideband channel and the second sub-PPDU is transmitted on the second set of sub-carriers of the wideband channel.

Abstract: Wireless resource determination and use are described. A wireless device may determine to use a resource (e.g., PUCCH resource), indicated by control information (e.g., DCI), for sending an acknowledgement (e.g., HARQ-ACK feedback) of a reception of data (e.g., at least one transport block). The control information may be received in a message of a plurality of messages. The wireless device may select the control information (e.g., for determining the resource) from among other control information in the plurality of messages, based on one or more factors.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving, over a sub-channel of multiple sub-channels, ultra-reliable quality-of-service (QoS) traffic from one or more UEs over a time duration wherein other sub-channels of the multiple sub-channels are used for initial ultra-reliable QoS transmissions from one or more other transmitting UEs over the time duration, and relaying, along with one or more other relaying UEs, the ultra-reliable QoS traffic over a subsequent time duration.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a quasi-co-location reference signal. The method includes: determining a first transmission configuration indication list corresponding to a first control channel element, determining, in the first transmission configuration indication list, index information of transmission configuration indication activated for the first control channel element, and determining a quasi-co-location reference signal activated for the first control channel element according to the index information and the first transmission configuration indication list.

Abstract: A method for managing network traffic on a portable communication device including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of network interfaces configured to connect to a plurality of networks includes: processing network traffic of an application running on the processor via a first network of the plurality of networks, the first network being specified as a primary network by an operating system running on the processor; monitoring a plurality of network status information associated with the first network; detecting a problem of the first network when one or more parameters of the received network status information is outside of one or more threshold values; in response to detecting the problem in the first network, selecting a second network of the plurality of networks as the primary network; and processing the network traffic via the second network as the updated primary network.

Abstract: A method includes registering, by a primary cell site processor, an unmanned aerial vehicle, receiving, by the primary cell site processor, a list of one or more potential secondary cell sites from the unmanned aerial vehicle, timing advances associated with the one or more secondary cell sites, deriving, by the primary cell site processor, a number of component carriers within each of the one or more potential secondary cell sites, selecting, by the primary cell site processor, one or more secondary cell sites from the one or more potential secondary cell sites, and transmitting, by the primary cell site processor, instructions to the one or more secondary cell sites to provide a component carrier to the unmanned aerial vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability.