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.

Abstract: In the method, a terminal device receives first downlink control information from a network device, where the first downlink control information includes a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number. The terminal device receives, on a first frequency band, a first data packet carrying a first transport block, and receives, on a second frequency band, a second data packet carrying a second transport block, where the first HARQ process number corresponds to the first transport block on the first frequency band and the second transport block on the second frequency band. The terminal device performs joint decoding on the first data packet and the second data packet. The first transport block is the same as the second transport block. By using the method and the apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, data transmission reliability in a multi-band transmission scenario can be improved.

Abstract: A method for encoding a bitstream for a frame in a wireless transmission is described. The method includes receiving, by an error correction unit of the wireless device, the bitstream; performing, by the error correction unit, forward error correction on the bitstream to generate an error corrected bitstream; determining, by a dual sub-carrier modulation (DCM) mapper of the first wireless device, a number of data subcarriers for modulating the error corrected bitstream to subcarriers in each half of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the number of data subcarriers is determined to be (1) 26 for a first bandwidth of the frame, (2) 54 for a second bandwidth and performing, by the DCM mapper, DCM on the error corrected bitstream based on the determined number of data subcarriers to generate a stream of complex numbers corresponding to the number of data subcarriers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a resource configuration method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, being used for enabling, when a remaining minimum system information control resource set and an associated synchronization information block are in a time division multiplexing mode, the configuration of the remaining minimum system information control resource set to be more flexible, being applicable to more application scenarios. The resource configuration method comprises: determining that a remaining minimum system information control resource set (RMSI CORESET) and an associated synchronization information block (SS Block) occupy different symbols for transmission in a time division multiplexing mode; and determining the configuration parameters of the RMSI CORESET and the associated SS Block, the remaining minimum system information control resource sets associated with the SS Blocks in each SS Block burst set having identical configuration parameters.

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including resource allocation information for a sidelink and an uplink (UL) channel, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including sidelink resource allocation information; identifying resources for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response of the sidelink based on the configuration information and the sidelink resource allocation information; and transmitting, to the BS, the HARQ response of the sidelink via physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources.

Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a setup request associated with the recipient electronic device. The setup request may specify a group address for which the recipient electronic device wants to receive associated frames and a proposed transmission interval. Based at least in part on the proposed transmission interval, the electronic device may determine a transmission schedule and/or may assign, based at least in part on the group address, the recipient electronic device to an aggregated group having a flexible multicast service identifier (FMSID). Then, the electronic device may provide a wake-up frame for the recipient electronic device, where the wake-up frame includes an identifier of the aggregated group for which a group-addressed frame will subsequently be transmitted by the electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up frame may be provided at a transmission time based at least in part on the transmission schedule.

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus that includes two or more sensor nodes that obtain sensed data from a structure. A controller receives the sensed data from the sensor nodes, via a network formed by the sensor nodes and the controller. The controller controls functionality of each of the sensor nodes, controls time synchronization among the sensor nodes, detects information collected by the sensor nodes, and communicates, utilizing an M-ary time-reversal based protocol, the detected information using a planar surface of the structure as the transmission medium for elastic waves.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, an identifiable grouping of data; storing, by the transport layer, the data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, the storing including inserting into each transport layer packet a grouping identifier that identifies the transport layer packets as belonging to the identifiable grouping; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of transmitting deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the grouping identifier enabling receiving deterministic network interface circuits to group the received transport layer packets, regardless of deterministic link, into a single processing group for a next receiving transport layer.

Abstract: A method operates a field bus system, wherein the field bus system has: a gateway, which has a network connection for a network of a specified type and a fieldbus connection for a fieldbus, and a number of fieldbus nodes, wherein the fieldbus nodes are coupled to each other and to the gateway via the fieldbus for the purpose of data exchange. Addressing takes place in the network of the specified type by network addresses, wherein the network addresses have a first part which designates a destination address, and a second part which designates a port of the destination address. The method comprises the steps of: creating a bus configuration, wherein the bus configuration assigns a destination address to a port, and performing a network address translation using the gateway based on the bus configuration created.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a message receiver circuit that receives, at a port of a network node, a message from a neighboring network node. The message includes a maximum transmission unit (“MTU”) of the neighboring network node. The network nodes communicate using a layer-2 protocol. The apparatus includes a comparison circuit that determines if the received MTU is larger than an MTU for the port, and an approval circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is larger than the port's MTU, determines if the received MTU is supported by the network node. The method includes an increase circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, changes the MTU of the network node's ports to match the received MTU, and a message circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, sends a message with the MTU to network nodes connected to ports of the network node.

Abstract: Various designs for implementing bandwidth part (BWP) full-duplex (FD) are discussed. A base station serving a plurality of user equipments (UEs) over a component carrier bandwidth (CC BW) receives a reference signal from a UE while transmitting downlink traffic to another UE over a part of the CC BW. The base station determines, based on the reference signal, a level of interference on transmissions over the part of the CC BW, and, based at least in part on interference cancelation capabilities of the base station and the level of interference, at least one portion of the CC BW for full-duplex operations. The base station activates full-duplex operations for the at least one portion of the CC BW, which includes receiving from the UE while transmitting to another UE over the same portion of the CC BW. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A communication apparatus transmits a first packet to each of a plurality of other communication apparatuses, and transmits a Multi-User Block Acknowledgement Request (MU-BAR) for causing the other communication apparatus among the plurality of other communication apparatuses, from which an Acknowledgement (ACK) to the first packet is not received at a predetermined timing after the transmission of the first packet, to transmit the ACK.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for addressing relation round trip time (RTT) positioning and timing advance (TA) command with user equipment (UE) receive-transmit (Rx-Tx) measurement reporting in wireless network such as in new radio (NR).

Abstract: There is disclosed a user equipment, UE, for a Radio Access Network, the UE being adapted for sidelink communication on a sidelink, the UE further being adapted for transmitting acknowledgement signaling pertaining to sidelink data. The sidelink data includes one or more data elements and the acknowledgement signaling has a signaling format comprising one or more acknowledgement substructures. Each of the substructures carries acknowledgement information pertaining to one of the data elements. Further, each of the acknowledgment substructures is mapped to a different one of the data elements based on at least one acknowledgement position indication provided in control signaling received by the UE. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: Subband based uplink access for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. A base station performs a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on system allocated subbands of a shared communication channel. The base station determines a first set of candidate subbands that are signaled to a user equipment (UE). The UE performs an LBT procedure on the first set to identify a second set of candidate subbands including the successful LBT subbands of the first set. Aspects of the disclosure provide for managing and refining the subbands for transmissions. A first aspect provides the UE to determine a transmission behavior based on mismatch between the first and second sets. A second aspect provides the first and second sets in handshaking between the base station and UE for refining the eventual transmission set of subbands. A third aspect provides cross-band LBT reporting for further refining subband selection in later slots.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of operating a wireless device. The method comprises receiving (10), from a network node, control information indicating a timing of a scheduled transmission or reception. The method further comprises determining (20) at least one slot or symbol for the scheduled transmission or reception based on the control information indicating the timing, wherein the determining is dependent on whether the wireless device is configured with a semi-static time division duplex, TDD, uplink-downlink allocation or not. The method also comprises performing (30) the scheduled transmission or reception in the determined at least one slot or symbol.

Abstract: An interleaved mapping method includes: interleaving a virtual sequence of first physical resource element bundles according to an interleaving function, wherein the first physical resource element bundles include actual physical resource element bundles and one or more virtual physical resource element bundles; marking a physical resource element bundle in the interleaved first physical resource element bundles without any corresponding actual physical resource element bundle as an invalid physical resource element bundle; determining a first correspondence of the valid physical resource element bundles in the interleaved first physical resource element bundles with respect to an actual sequence of the actual physical resource element bundles; and determining, based on the first correspondence and a second correspondence of logical resource elements with respect to the actual sequence, a mapping relationship between the logical resource elements and the actual physical resource element bundles.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient cross-carrier scheduling of multiple slots. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives, from a base unit, a first control signal that indicates a maximum number of hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”) processes. The receiver also receives a second control signal on a first carrier from the base unit that schedules a first number of slots on a second carrier. The apparatus includes a processor that aggregates every two or more of the scheduled first number of slots into a single HARQ process in response to the first number being larger than the maximum number of HARQ processes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining supplementary system information, and a corresponding user equipment (UE), and base station. A method used in the UE according to the present invention comprises: sending a system information request message to a base station to request required supplementary system information, and starting a timer simultaneously; and receiving the requested supplementary system information within a time window defined by the timer.