Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) to operate in accordance with a physical random access channel (PRACH) are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise hardware processing circuitry to determine a coverage enhancement category for the UE based on downlink channel statistics related to reception of downlink signals at the UE from an Evolved Node-B (eNB) and an uplink-downlink imbalance parameter related to uplink reception at the eNB. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to select, for use in a coverage enhancement mode, a PRACH preamble from a set of candidate PRACH preambles based on the determined coverage enhancement category for the UE. In some embodiments, at least some of the candidate PRACH preambles may span a different number of sub-frames.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently identifying a receive beam for performing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure in an attempt to gain access to a transmission opportunity (TxOP) in a shared radio frequency spectrum. In particular, a wireless device may select a receive beam that corresponds to one or more transmit beams to be used in a TxOP to perform an LBT procedure in an attempt to gain access to the TxOP. In one example, the wireless device may select a receive beam for performing an LBT procedure based on the energy of each of the transmit beams to be used in a TxOP. In another example, the wireless device may select a receive beam for performing an LBT procedure if the receive beam is quasi co-located with each of the transmit beams to be used in a TxOP.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A first time gap is set from an end of the PDCCH to a beginning of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). A second time gap is set from an end of the PDSCH to a beginning of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). A high priority channel and a low priority channel are configured in a PDCCH monitoring span. At least one parameter indicating a minimum amount of additional time required by a user equipment (UE) for processing the low priority channel, is received from the UE. Based on the at least one parameter, the UE is configured with at least one offset used to increase at least one of the first time gap and the second time gap.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently scheduling semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink transmissions and dynamic downlink transmissions to maximize throughput in a wireless communications system. In one example, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink data in a dynamic downlink transmission and receive the same downlink data or no data in an SPS downlink transmission when the dynamic downlink transmission is scheduled to occur after the SPS downlink transmission and before an uplink feedback transmission for the SPS downlink transmission. In another example, a UE may receive downlink data in a dynamic downlink transmission and receive the same downlink data or no downlink data in an SPS downlink transmission when the SPS downlink transmission is scheduled to occur after the dynamic downlink transmission and before an uplink feedback transmission for the dynamic downlink transmission.

Abstract: This disclosure combines the Attach and Tracking Area Update procedures into one new mobility procedure: the Registration procedure performed by a signal handling function SHF. One advantage of the proposed Registration procedure is that, if the new SHF is unable to obtain UE data from the old SHF the new SHF will nevertheless register the UE so that the UE does not have to perform another registration procedure (e.g., an Attach procedure).

Abstract: A control-plane interface is established between a cellular radio access node and an anchor for at least first and second non-cellular radio access nodes (such as API and AP2); and thereafter during mobility of a user equipment (UE) from API to AP2, the anchor relocates a user-plane interface for a radio link allocated to the UE from API to AP2 while maintaining the established control-plane interface for the radio link. When implemented for LTE-WLAN Aggregation (LWA), the control-plane interface is Xw-C with a corresponding control plane wireless termination (WT-C), the user-plane interface is Xw-U with a corresponding user plane wireless terminations (WT-U); the cellular radio access node is an eNB, the APs belong to the anchor and have BSSs that belong to a same mobility set that is configured for the UE by the eNB; the anchor is the WT-C, and the APs are WT-Us.

Abstract: Techniques for extended network configuration conversion and reconfiguration are described. A network controller proceeds through a set of extended network nodes in an extended network and reconfigures ports in at the various nodes from a first configuration to a second configuration while preventing network traffic looping and maintaining data and management traffic connection to the nodes during the reconfiguration.

Abstract: Various arrangements for configuring wireless network access for a first wireless device using a previously-configured second wireless device are presented. The first wireless device may output a temporary wireless network hotspot and advertise an identifier. A second wireless device may search for and identify the based on the advertised identifier. The second wireless device may connect with the temporary wireless network hotspot and provide wireless network credentials for a wireless network for which the second wireless device has previously been granted access. The may then establish a network connection with the wireless network based on the wireless network credentials transmitted by the second wireless device.

Abstract: In a transmitter, an assignment circuit maps a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) onto a subcarrier, and a transmitting circuit transmits a signal containing the phase tracking reference signal. The phase tracking reference signal is mapped onto a different subcarrier for each cell, group, or mobile station.

Abstract: A communications method and apparatus. The communications method includes: transmitting a first request to a network device through a first resource, where the first request is used to request beam failure recovery of a first cell or is used to request system information of the first cell, the first resource is a resource of a second cell, and the first cell and the second cell are serving cells of a same terminal; and receiving a first response corresponding to the first request from the network device. Therefore, when a terminal has a plurality of serving cells, the terminal may transmit a request across cells (or across carriers), to improve transmission reliability.

Abstract: A network service transmission method includes obtaining network topology information and network service information, and determining a node centrality of each node in a set of other nodes; determining at least one segment node in the set of other nodes, determining at least one transmission path used to transmit each network service; and determining traffic of a network service that is to be transmitted on the at least one transmission path used to transmit the network service. After the segment node is determined, traffic of a network service transmitted on each transmission path is determined, and the transmission paths of the network services share the same segment node.

Abstract: Methods and systems for provisioning unique identifiers to a plurality of access points (APs) in a wireless network and radios associated thereto is provided. By utilizing a testing apparatus in communication via a network with the APs, the methods and systems assign a unique radio test identifier for an AP in the plurality of APs and provisions the AP radio associated with the AP in the plurality of APs with the corresponding unique radio test identifier. The testing apparatus has a provisioning mode that can be switched on or off. Also provided are a system for provisioning the unique identifiers and applications thereof; for example, in testing and providing maintenance of APs.

Abstract: A configurable wireless communications module may include a first antenna layer having one or more antenna operating at a first wireless radio band; a second antenna layer having one or more antenna operating at a second wireless radio band; and a support structure for supporting the first antenna layer and the second antenna layer in a stacked configuration. A scalable modular processor within the communication may be customized based on the particular use scenario and configured to provide a number of functions in the RF domain and in concert with a variety of sensors and components.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a carrier switching method, a base station, and user equipment, where the method includes: determining, according to carrier switching capability information of user equipment UE, a carrier switching policy according to which the UE performs carrier switching; and sending carrier switching indication information to the UE, where the carrier switching indication information is used for indicating the carrier switching policy, so that the UE performs carrier switching according to the carrier switching policy. In the carrier switching method, the base station and the user equipment according to embodiments of the present invention, the UE having no carrier aggregation capability is enabled to dynamically perform switching between at least two carriers, so that quality of service of a service of the UE can be improved, user experience can be improved, and system performance can be improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a packet processing method, device, and system. The system includes: a controller, configured to: allocate a service label to a service processing manner of an FEC, establish a mapping relationship between the service label and the service processing manner, send the service label to a source node, and send the mapping relationship to a destination node; the source node, configured to: receive the service label sent by the controller, receive a first packet, insert the service label to the first packet to obtain a second packet, and send the second packet to the destination node; the destination node, configured to: receive the mapping relationship sent by the controller, receive the second packet sent by the source node, and pop the service label from the second packet according to the mapping relationship, to obtain the first packet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a sidelink of a wireless communication system are proposed. A transmission UE can contiguously or non-contiguously allocate radio resources through sidelink communication. A specific resource allocation method is selected in consideration of latency of sidelink data/packets or other factors. For example, a specific resource allocation method can be determined based on whether a plurality of contiguous subchannels is allocated to radio resources before a first time, which is determined based on latency of data/packets.

Abstract: A channel listening method applied to an unlicensed frequency band, and an apparatus are provided, where the method includes: performing, by a communications device, clear channel assessment on a first beam, and in a process of the clear channel assessment, performing, by the communications device, a backoff based on a backoff control parameter for the first beam, where the communications device has a plurality of optional beams, the first beam is one of the plurality of optional beams, and the backoff control parameter is set based on a historical value of a backoff control parameter for at least one of the plurality of optional beams; and after the backoff succeeds, performing, by the communications device, transmission by using the first beam.

Abstract: An interference power measurement method and a device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first signaling that carries first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate n first channel state information-reference signal CSI RS resources, and a jth first CSI RS resource is associated with a power parameter Pc,j; and sending, by the terminal, a channel quality indicator CQI, where the CQI is determined based on a total interference power. The total interference power is a linear weighting result of an interference power measured on each of the n first CSI RS resources and an interference power I0 measured on a zero power CSI RS resource. A weighting coefficient of an interference power Ij measured on the jth first CSI RS resource is a function of the power parameter Pc,j, and a weighting coefficient of I0 is a function of 1 - ? j = 1 n ? P c , j .

Abstract: A method, comprises communicating, between a base station (112) and a terminal (130, 130-1-130-4), a downlink control message (4001) indicative of a sequence design of a wake-up signal (4003); and communicating, between the base station (112) and the terminal (130, 130-1-130-4), the wake-up signal (4003) in accordance with the sequence design; and in response to said communicating of the wake-up signal (4003): communicating, between the base station (112) and the terminal (130, 130-1-130-4), at least one further signal (4004, 4005).

Abstract: The terminal apparatus receives a PHICH and a PDCCH, and in a case that transmission of a transport block corresponding to a first HARQ process and transmission of a transport block corresponding to a second HARQ process, each having a different processing time from reception of the PDCCH to transmission of a PUSCH, occur in an identical uplink subframe, an ACK is set as a state variable HARQ_FEEDBACK of the first HARQ process.