Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating UE indication of null tone placement for demodulation are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes measuring one or more downlink transmissions in one or more frequency subcarriers received from a base station over a time period. The example method also includes transmitting, to the base station, a null tone indication indicating one or more locations for one or more null tones, the one or more locations for the one or more null tones based at least in part on measurements performed on the one or more downlink transmissions received over the time period.

Abstract: A method for implementing opportunistic user scheduling under long-term and short-term resource fairness constraints is presented. The method includes enabling a base station to communicate with a plurality mobile devices handled by a plurality of users within a single-cell wireless communication network, deriving a feasible region of resource block (RB) fairness vectors by enabling an opportunistic scheduler to select active users from the plurality of users at each RB, implementing an optimal user scheduling strategy to maximize system utility by optimizing, via the opportunistic scheduler, transmit power and user mode selection, wherein the optimal user scheduling strategy includes a threshold-based strategy (TBS) phase and a compensation phase, and employing a short-term resource fair scheduling strategy satisfying user resource demands over a finite window-length.

Abstract: Provided are a method for performing sidelink transmission by a first apparatus (100) and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise steps of: determining to perform first sidelink transmission related to LTE and second sidelink transmission related to NR; and performing any one of the first sidelink transmission or the second sidelink transmission on the basis of a priority order of the first sidelink transmission and a priority order of the second sidelink transmission.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting one or more physical communication link breaks are disclosed. An indication of a failure of one or more network layer links may be received. A physical layer link associated with the one or more network layer links may be determined based on the indication of the failure, and based on data indicating one or more associations between network layer links and physical layer links. A score may be determined indicating a probability that the physical layer link comprises a failure associated with a break in a physical communication link of the physical layer link based on determining a total quantity of the network layer links associated with the physical layer link, and based on a quantity of one or more network layer links associated with the indication of the failure.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, via a first interface of a repeater, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The base station may determine a configuration for the second interface of the repeater based at least in part on the information associated with the second interface, and may communicate the configuration for the second interface of the repeater via the first interface. In some aspects, a repeater may transmit, to a base station via a first interface, information associated with a second interface of the repeater. The repeater may receive, via the first interface, a configuration for the second interface, and may configure the second interface based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method for operation of a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a traffic load information message regarding the current load situation of a first leaf network node is transmitted, by the local power management entity or functionality of the first leaf network node, to a central power management entity or functionality; in a second step, the central power management entity or functionality transmits a session transfer request message to a session management entity or functionality; in a third step, the session management entity or functionality transmits a session transfer answer message to the central power management entity or functionality; and in a fourth step, the central power management entity or functionality transmits a traffic load execution message to the local power management entity or functionality of the first leaf network node.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may communicate with a set of transceiver nodes (e.g., transmission reception points (TRPs)) in a first transceiver node operation mode (e.g., a multi-TRP mode). A first transceiver node of the set of transceiver nodes may receive, from a second of the set of transceiver nodes, an indication to switch between rate matching states. The first transceiver node may switch from a first rate matching state to a second rate matching state and may transmit a downlink shared channel based on a resource configuration associated with the second rate matching state. The UE may receive the shared channel based on an antenna port configuration determined by the UE based on the first transceiver node operation and rate matching information. The rate matching information may be provided by the first transceiver node.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to transmitting, by a device and to a base station, assistance information to facilitate configuring one or more parameters for communicating with the base station, detecting, by the device, that an assistance response signal including the one or more parameters based on the assistance information is not received from the base station within a threshold period of time, degrading, by the device and based on the detecting that the assistance response signal is not received within the threshold period of time, feedback to be communicated to the base station.

Abstract: Provided are a parameter configuration and power determination method, device and a communication node. The parameter configuration method includes: configuring at least one transmission parameter setting set for a first communication node, where the transmission parameter setting set includes at least one first transmission parameter set, the first transmission parameter set includes at least one of: a transmission parameter set identifier for identifying the first transmission parameter set, target receiving power configuration information, path loss configuration information, or first indication information for indicating whether to reset a closed-loop power adjustment amount locally maintained by the first communication node. The problem of large overhead of the power control scheme in the NR multi-beam scenario in the existing art is solved, and achieving the effect of reducing the air interface signaling overhead.

Abstract: An information reporting method and device, and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: after detecting that a failure event occurs in a master cell group (MCG) or a failure event occurs in a secondary cell group (SCG), a terminal reports MCG failure information or SCG failure information to a network side, the MCG failure information or SCG failure information being used for network optimization by the network side, wherein the MCG is a cell group of master nodes, and the SCG is a cell group of secondary nodes.

Abstract: A processing method includes: performing a target operation when data transmission on a target transmission path in the M transmission paths fails, where the target operation includes at least one of: reporting failure indication information; performing a first operation on a target radio link control (RLC) entity corresponding to the target transmission path; performing a second operation on a target medium access control (MAC) entity corresponding to the target transmission path; performing a third operation on a target SCell corresponding to the target transmission path; or performing a fourth operation on the target split bearer.

Abstract: A method for processing a change in a radio capability of a terminal apparatus is provided. The method comprises that an access network apparatus receives radio capability change indication information. The radio capability change indication information indicates that a radio capability of a terminal apparatus changes. The access network apparatus obtains a changed part of the radio capability of the terminal apparatus. The access network apparatus generates updated radio capability information of the terminal apparatus based on at least an old radio capability of the terminal apparatus and the changed part of the radio capability of the terminal apparatus. The access network apparatus sends the updated radio capability information to a core network apparatus.

Abstract: This disclosure provides an uplink transmission method, user equipment, and a network-side device. The uplink transmission method applied to user equipment includes: receiving a scheduling instruction transmitted by a network-side device, where the scheduling instruction includes a set of interlace indices of resource blocks and a scheduled bandwidth, and an interlace of resource blocks in the scheduled bandwidth indicated by the set of interlace indices of resource blocks includes a guard band physical resource block PRB; performing clear channel detection for the scheduled bandwidth; determining a PRB for data transmission in the interlace of resource blocks based on a detection result of the clear channel detection; and transmitting data by using the PRB for data transmission.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a plurality of slot-aggregated physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions associated with a common transport block; receive a dynamic feedback information (DFI) transmission that includes hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback associated with the plurality of slot-aggregated PUSCH transmissions, wherein the HARQ feedback is a HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) or a HARQ negative acknowledgement (NACK); determine whether one or more PUSCH transmissions, of the plurality of slot-aggregated PUSCH transmissions, satisfy a delay condition associated with receipt of the DFI transmission; and determine whether the HARQ feedback is valid based at least in part on whether the one or more PUSCH transmissions satisfy the delay condition. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes receiving, by a terminal, at least two pieces of scheduling information from a network device. At least two transmission resources correspond to the at least two pieces of scheduling information partially overlap in time domain. The data transmission method also includes performing data transmission on at least one of the at least two transmission resources.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating a user equipment (UE) for device-to-device (D2D) communications. The method includes receiving booking information from another UE. The booking information identifying a resource that the other UE is booking to use for transmission by the other UE and further including priority information. The method further includes selectively transmitting preemption signaling based on whether the received priority information indicates lower priority than local priority information that is associated with a transmission to be scheduled by the UE. The preemption signaling indicates preemption of the UE to use the resource identified by the booking information. The method further includes scheduling the UE to transmit using the resource identified by the booking information.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communication apparatus applied to a wireless communication system, to provide a signaling design solution applicable to a scenario of multi-AP coordinated transmission. An embodiment of this application provides a communication method, including: a first access point (AP) generates notification information, where the notification information indicates a station (STA) that is to send a channel sounding physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), the notification information includes identification information of the STA and identification information of a second AP, the identification information of the STA indicates the STA, and the identification information of the second AP indicates the second AP. The first AP sends the notification information to the second AP and to the STA.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits reference signals for positioning while in Idle or Inactive state. While in a connected state, the UE is pre-configured with Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource configuration including at least one of timing adjustment (TA) and an uplink (UL) transmission spatial filter. The UE transmits positioning SRS while in Idle or Inactive mode based on the pre-configuration. The TA and UL transmission spatial filter may be updated by a serving base station using control signals or a paging message received by the UE while in in Idle or Inactive mode. The validity of the TA and UL transmission spatial filter may be monitored using expiration timers or a relative position change threshold. The reference signals transmitted may be based on a UE may Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), which is insensitive to TA changes. A long sequence PRACH may be used for improved positioning accuracy.

Abstract: A communication signal processing method comprises obtaining transmission delay value difference data relating to a difference in transmission delay values in a communication network that varies depending on whether or not a redundant path is used, obtaining redundancy status data relating to whether the redundant path is used, and controlling a parameter of a communication signal transmitted by the communication network based on the transmission delay value difference data when the redundant path is used as a result of determination according to the redundancy status data.

Abstract: A method and device for determining occupied slots, a storage medium, and a user equipment. The method comprises: receiving a slot format indication index and a number N of slots indicated by a slot format from a base station by means of a PDCCH, and according to the slot format indication index, determining a starting position in the PDCCH of the slots indicated by the slot format; receiving a number M of spatial directions from the base station, and receiving multiple indication signals transmitted from the M spatial directions from the base station; determining the M spatial directions according to the indication signals; and in the M spatial directions, determining slots occupied by the base station in each spatial direction according to the starting position in the PDCCH of the slots indicated by the slot format and the number N of the slots indicated by the slot format.