Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for performing IAB in a cellular telecommunications network that comprises a first IAB node and a second IAB node. A method is performed by the first IAB node. The method comprises scheduling, in a first phase, downstream backhaul data from the first IAB node to the second IAB node. The method comprises receiving, in a third phase, from the second IAB node, upstream backhaul data as scheduled by the second IAB node.

Abstract: Communication network systems are disclosed. In one or more implementations, the communication network system includes a plurality of network devices. Each of the plurality of network devices incorporates one or more multi-port switches, where each multi-port switch includes a connection to the network device incorporating the multi-port switch and a connection to at least one other port of another multi-port switch incorporated by another respective one of the plurality of network devices.

Abstract: A secondary cell activation method and apparatus relating to the communications field are described herein. The method may include sending, by an access network device, an activation command to a terminal device, where the activation command indicates activating a secondary cell. The method may also include sending, by the access network device, first configuration information of a first reference signal to the terminal device. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the access network device, the first reference signal to the terminal device according to the first configuration information, where the first reference signal is used to obtain a channel measurement result of the secondary cell. According to secondary cell activation methods described herein, a flexible and efficient secondary cell activation mechanism can be provided, so as to improve secondary cell activation efficiency.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a UE capability to receive a first portion of a tracking reference signal (TRS) and a second portion of the TRS, the first portion and the second portion associated with a TRS pattern. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of the TRS pattern, where the TRS pattern includes the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern. The UE may receive one or more TRSs according to the first portion of the TRS pattern and the second portion of the TRS pattern.

Abstract: A communication system, a communication management method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The communication system communicates with an access source terminal connected to a first network, a communication apparatus and one or more access destination terminals each connected to a second network, the one or more access destination terminal being configured to provide a service by remote access, in response to a request from the access source terminal to use the service provided by the one or more access destination terminals, acquires access information including location information indicating location of the access source terminal and time information indicating usage time of the service, and restricts use of the service based on the access information and setting information, the setting information previously setting a range of the access information for permitting the use of the service provided by the one or more access destination terminals by the access source terminal.

Abstract: A wireless communication receiver including a serial to parallel converter receiving an radio frequency signal, a fast Fourier transform device connected to said serial to parallel converter converting NFFT corresponding serial signals into a frequency domain; an EZC root sequence unit generating a set of root sequence signals; an element-by-element multiply unit forming a set of products including a product of each of said frequency domain signals from said fast Fourier transform device and a corresponding root sequence signal, an NSRS-length IDFT unit performing a group cyclic-shift de-multiplexing of the products and a discrete Fourier transform unit converting connected cyclic shift de-multiplexing signals back to frequency-domain.

Abstract: Configuration of measurement requirements on cells and beams in NR is made more efficient by, in a user equipment, UE, receiving, information from a network node, which information indicates: a first number K of beams to be measured by the UE, and a second number L of cells in which the UE is required to measure the first number K of beams. The UE then carries out measurements using the received information; and performs at least one operational task based on a result of the measurements.

Abstract: An electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and is configured to use a group common-physical downlink control channel (GC-PDCCH) to transmit control information relating to data in a time slot preceding a time slot of the GC-PDCCH. In the invention, a GC-PDCCH can be better designed according to characteristics of an NR communication system.

Abstract: A communication control device for a user station for a serial bus system and a method for communicating in a serial bus system. The communication control device controls a communication of the user station with at least one other user station of the bus system, and to generate a transmission signal for transmission onto a bus of the bus system and/or to receive a signal from the bus. The communication control device is designed to generate the transmission signal according to a frame. The communication control device is designed to generate the transmission signal in such a way that in the transmission signal, the bit time of at least one bit is adapted as a function of an edge height that is to be provided between the at least one bit and the preceding bit in a signal in which the bit is to be transferred via the bus.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method and an apparatus for preventing loss of data existing in Msg3 buffer and a method and an apparatus for determining a paging frame and/or a paging occasion are provided.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes that operate with simultaneous mobile terminal (MT) and distributed unit (DU) communication. For example, embodiments may include mechanisms for aligning the communications (e.g., slot-based alignment or symbol-based alignment). Additionally, embodiments may include mechanisms for guard symbol management for IAB MT/DU simultaneous operation. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive control signaling indicating multiple sidelink channels of a sidelink resource pool, a mapping between each sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels to a corresponding feedback channel of multiple feedback channels, and a time gap between sidelink channel transmission and feedback transmission with respect to a feedback channel sub-slot of multiple feedback channel sub-slots within a slot. Accordingly, the first wireless device may receive a sidelink data message on a first sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels and may transmit sidelink feedback information for the sidelink data message in the feedback channel sub-slot of the slot on a first feedback channel of the multiple feedback channels corresponding to the first sidelink channel.

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment includes receiving, via a radio access network (RAN), a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating to transition from RRC_CONNECTED to RRC_INACTIVE. The RRC message includes a resume identifier. The user equipment performs a connection resume procedure that includes transmitting, to the RAN, an RRC connection resume request that includes the resume identifier and transmitting, to the RAN, an RRC resume complete message that includes an index of a selected public land mobile network (PLMN) identity.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to determining configuration of a DRX timer. A wireless device determines a relationship between a DRX timer and different scheduling units and determines a time unit of the DRX timer based on the determined relationship. Then, the wireless device calculates a time interval indicated by the DRX timer based on the time unit.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a parameter configuration method and apparatus, relate to the field of communications technologies, and specifically provide a method and an apparatus for setting a resource unit bundling size, to help improve accuracy of a channel estimation result. The method may include: generating parameter configuration signaling, and sending the parameter configuration signaling. The parameter configuration signaling is used to indicate the resource unit bundling size. The resource unit bundling size may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in frequency domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in frequency domain; or may be applied to at least two inconsecutive time-frequency resources in time domain, and each time-frequency resource includes at least one consecutive resource unit in time domain.

Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.

Abstract: An information handling system operating a dock assisted dual-band simultaneous (DBS) communication diversity system may comprise a processor to identify a plurality of latency—sensitive software applications currently executing at the processor, and to identify an optimized wireless link configuration dedicating each of a plurality of optimized links between the information handling system and a network access point (AP), or between the information handling system and a docking station to electronic communications transceived pursuant to execution of one of the plurality of software applications prioritizing minimized latency, and a network interface device transceiving data via a plurality of optimized links with the AP and the docking station according to the optimized wireless link configuration, wherein the plurality of optimized links includes at least one optimized wireless link to the AP to decrease a number of wireless hops required to transceive packets from the information handling system to the AP

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a reference signal in a wireless communication system. In the method, in order to dynamically switch an uplink (UL) Demodulation-Reference Signal (DM-RS) according to the communication environment, such as CoMP and MU-MIMO, a parameter set for generation of a reference signal sequence is configured to include a Virtual Cell Identifier (VCID) parameter configured by information of a total of 9 bits and a cyclic shift hopping initial value parameter cinitCSH, which is 9-bit information representing one integer value among 510 integer values. Therefore, it may be possible to achieve dynamic transmission or reception of a reference signal and channel estimation through the dynamic transmission or reception of the reference signal even when the communication environment dynamically changes as in a Cooperative Multiple Point transmission and reception (CoMP) scenario.

Abstract: A network device may receive Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and network information from network components and from a set of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes; generate descriptions of, or updates to the descriptions of, routing paths based on the NSSAI and the network information; and send the descriptions or the updates to the IAB nodes. The routing paths may include one or more backhaul links between the IAB nodes, and the descriptions and the updates associate each of the routing paths with one or more Single-NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs).

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for the dynamic discovery, update and propagation of multicast streams capabilities in a network. An endpoint can be coupled to a first hop router in a network environment. The first hop router can discover multicast flow characteristics information associated with the endpoint and propagate the multicast flow characteristics information of the endpoint to additional network nodes in the network environment. The first hop router and at least a portion of the additional network nodes can form one or more multicast flows associated with the endpoint through the network environment using the multicast flow characteristic information associated with the endpoint.