Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for latency-oriented router. An incoming packet is received on a first interface. The type of the incoming packet is determined. Upon the detection that the incoming packet belongs to latency-critical traffic, the incoming packet is duplicated into one or more copies. Subsequently, the duplicated copies are sent to a second interface in a delayed fashion where the duplicated copies are spread over a time period. The duplicated copies are received and processed at the second interface.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The methods, systems, and devices may enable a base station to transmit a measurement configuration for measuring interference (e.g., cross link interference (CLI)). The measurement configuration may include a measurement direction configuration for measuring the interference. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may select a measurement direction configuration for measuring interference based on the measurement configuration. The UE may measure interference based on the measurement configuration. The UE may transmit a measurement report to the base station. The measurement report may include an indication of the selected measurement direction configuration.

Abstract: Systems and methods for multidimensional beam refinement procedures and signaling for millimeter wave WLANs. In some embodiments, there are multi-dimensional enhanced beam refinement protocol MAC and PHY frame designs that extend the MAC packet and the PPDU format with or without backwards compatibility. The multiple dimensions may be supported jointly or separately. In other embodiments, the increased data signaled in the eBRP frame designs may be more efficiently signaled with reduced BRP frame sizes, such as through a training type dependent BRP minimum duration selection procedure or use of null data packet BRP frames. In further embodiments, the maximum duration of the interframe spacing between BPR packets may be varied to improve the efficiency of BRP operation.

Abstract: A wireless device may select, based on a first sensing procedure, a first candidate resource set for one or more sidelink transmissions, trigger a second sensing procedure, for the one or more sidelink transmissions, based on one or more first resources of the first selected candidate resource set, and exclude one or more second resources from the one or more first resources based on the second sensing procedure and a reference signal received power (RSRP) of the one or more second resources. The wireless device selects, from the one or more first resources and based on the excluding, a second remaining candidate resource set for the one or more sidelink transmissions and transmit the one or more sidelink transmissions via one or more third resources of the second remaining candidate resource set.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including transmitting reference signaling based on a reference pilot sequence, the reference pilot sequence being one of a set of reference pilot sequences, at least one reference pilot sequence of the set being a subsequence of another reference pilot sequence of the set. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating using power control parameters for multiple transmitter receiver point (mTRP) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration indicating at least a first SRS resource set and at least a second SRS resource set, receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a first set of one or more PUSCH repetitions to a first TRP and a second set of one or more PUSCH repetitions to a second TRP, and transmitting the first and second sets of PUSCH repetitions using at least one of a first set of default power control parameters or a second set of default power control parameters.

Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.

Abstract: A disclosed method is implemented by a network node in a wireless communication network to transmitting system information to a plurality of wireless terminals. The network node transmits a first group of system information blocks (SIBs) via a first physical channel, and transmits a second group of additional SIBs via a different, second physical channel. A corresponding network node operative to implement the method is also disclosed. Another disclosed method is implemented by a wireless terminal in a wireless communication network. The wireless terminal processes information received from a base station over a first physical channel to identify a first group of SIBs, and processes information received from the base station over a different, second physical channel to identify a second group of additional SIBs. A corresponding wireless terminal operative to implement the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters comprise bandwidth part (BWP) parameters of: a first BWP and a default BWP; a first timer value associated with a cell deactivation timer; and a second timer value associated with a BWP inactivity timer. A downlink control information (DCI) indicating an activation of the cell is received. In response to the DCI: the cell is activated; and the cell deactivation timer is started based on the first timer value. In response to the activation of the cell, the first BWP of the cell is activated. The BWP inactivity timer is started based on the second timer value. In response to expiry of the BWP inactivity timer, a switch is made from the first BWP to the default BWP as an active BWP.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method of the terminal includes receiving uplink configuration information from a base station, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including information related to activation of grant-free uplink transmission, identifying the information related to the activation of the grant-free uplink transmission, based on the uplink configuration information, and transmitting an uplink signal to the base station, based on a result of the identifying.

Abstract: Logic may generate a wake-up radio packet, wherein the wake-up radio packet comprises an on-off keying (OOK) signal, a sequence of a preamble of the wake-up radio packet to indicate a rate of transmission of one or more OOK orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a medium access control (MAC) frame of the wake-up radio packet, wherein a duration of transmission of the preamble is 128 microseconds for a low data rate and a duration of transmission of the preamble is 64 microseconds for a low data rate. Logic may communicate the wake-up radio packet to a physical layer device to transmit OFDM symbols of an IEEE 802.11 preamble on a channel followed by OOK OFDM symbols of the wake-up radio packet on a sub-band of the channel. And logic may generate at least a second wake-up radio packet to transmit on a contiguous channel bandwidth with OOK OFDM symbols.

Abstract: Arrangement for switching between an active bandwidth part and the target bandwidth part are disclosed. A method includes selecting one or more resource blocks comprised in the target bandwidth part for a transmission or reception between the wireless device and the network node. The selected resource blocks to be used in the target bandwidth part are indicated in a resource allocation field of a downlink control channel information in the active bandwidth part. The allocation field includes information bits and the resource allocation field in the active bandwidth part and the information bits are configured based on a target bandwidth part resource allocation type. The target bandwidth part resource allocation type indicates whether the information bits have a bitmap corresponding to one or more resource block groups or an integer value corresponding to a starting resource block and a length of the allocation in resource blocks.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery management system, and a method and apparatus for transmitting information. The method includes: determining, from a plurality of slave nodes, a fault slave node that communicates abnormally with a master node in the battery management system; selecting a target slave node from the plurality of slave nodes, wherein the target slave node is a slave node that communicates normally with both the master node and the fault slave node; transmitting frequency conversion information to the target slave node, so that the target slave node forwards the frequency conversion information to the fault slave node, and the fault slave node performs a frequency conversion based on the frequency conversion information; and transmitting information with the fault slave node using a frequency after the frequency conversion. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the reliability of wireless communication in the battery management system can be improved.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for indicating information and interpreting information. A method of indicating information includes: generating a resource allocation informing format which includes a first informing format indicating that each of reserve statuses in a physical resource block (PRB) resource allocation field is configured for indicating a resource allocation scheme, or a second informing format indicating that one or more of the reserve statuses in the PRB resource allocation field is configured for indicating an early termination of uplink transmission while each of remaining reserve statuses is configured for indicating the resource allocation scheme; and sending the resource allocation informing format to UE.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first communication node (e.g., UE, BS, etc.) obtains one or more measurements associated with one or more PRSs (e.g., uplink PRS(s), downlink PRS(s), etc.) The first communication node populates measurement value(s) into measurement field(s) of a report based on the one or more measurements. The first communication node identifies at least one unpopulated measurement field associated with the report, and transmits, to a second communication node, the report in association with an indication of the at least one unpopulated measurement field. The second communication node (e.g., UE, BS, etc.) performs position computing function based on the report.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for multi-cell broadcast access channel utilization in a wireless network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide random access channel (RACH) procedure for a 3GPP-compliant user device (e.g., an enhanced UE or UEe) which attempts to connect to multiple cells simultaneously. In one variant, the UEe employs a multi-step (e.g., 4-step) RACH procedure to connect to the multiple cells. This significantly increases the likelihood of RACH procedure success and UEe access. In another variant, a 2-step RACH process is utilized. Variants of the apparatus and methods utilizing unlicensed spectrum and LBT (listen-before-talk) protocols are also described.

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network and a UE are provided. The method includes receiving, from the network, at least one downlink (DL) transmission, determining, by the UE, channel resource information reference signal (CSI-RS) occasions in the at least one DL transmission, determining, by the UE, whether a power of each of the CSI-RS occasions is the same, and averaging, by the UE, corresponding measurements when the power of each of the CSI-RS occasions is determined to be the same.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment, an indication of a temporary resource change, wherein the temporary resource change is associated with at least one of a resource configuration, a repetition configuration, or a combination thereof. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for slot structure indication is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node, comprising: configuring at least one first SFI entry set to a wireless communication device, wherein the at least one SFI entry set contains slot structure information of at least one transmission resource; and transmitting a physical channel to a wireless communication device, wherein the physical channel comprises at least one slot format related information (SFI) field.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configurations of a set of tracking reference signal (TRS) resource sets. The UE may receive an availability indication associated with one or more TRS resource sets from the set of TRS resource sets, and the availability indication is associated with one or more groups of TRS resource sets associated with the set of TRS resource sets. Numerous other aspects are described.