Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource configuration for sidelink communication, sidelink discovery or any other sidelink operation in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to determine a Bandwidth Part (BWP) assigned for sidelink transmission and reception in a carrier; and a transceiver operative to perform the sidelink transmission and reception on the determined BWP in the carrier, wherein dynamic BWP switching is not supported for the sidelink transmission and reception in the carrier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a packet in a communication system, the method comprising: generating drop information indicating at least one source packet to be dropped among source packets to be transmitted and whether or not to drop each of the other source packets except the at least one source packet; performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the drop information and the other source packets except the at least one source packet; generating a repair packet comprising repair data for restoring the drop information and a repair symbol for restoring the other source packets except the at least one source packet; and transmitting the other source packets except the at least one source packet and the repair packet.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node first receives first information, the first information being used to determine a target time-frequency resource pool; and then monitors a first signaling; after that, when the first signaling is detected, the communication node receives a first radio signal; a first code block is used to generated the first radio signal; time-frequency resources occupied by the first signaling comprise a first time-frequency resource, while time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal comprise a second time-frequency resource; whether the first radio signal can be excluded from being used for combined decoding for the first code block is dependent on whether the first time-frequency resource belongs to the target time-frequency resource pool. The present disclosure manages to improve the flexibility of buffer configurations.

Abstract: Facilitating a group hybrid automatic repeat request procedure for sidelink group-case in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a first device comprising a processor, that first information received via a sidelink control channel is successfully decoded and that second information received via a sidelink shared channel is not successfully decoded. The first information and the second information can be received from a second device. Further, the method can comprise transmitting, by the first device, negative acknowledgement data based on a group hybrid automatic repeat request feedback procedure. The method also can comprise receiving, by the first device, retransmission of the second information via the sidelink shared channel from a group of devices in response to the negative acknowledgement data.

Abstract: A wireless communications method synchronously transmits periodically from synchronized base stations of a single frequency network a common downlink synchronization signal (IoT-PSS) that underlays broadcasted signals transmitted in licensed bands of a cellular system, and a system frame number least significant bits signal (IoT-SFN-LSB) indicating timing of transmission of a system information block signal (IoT-SIB) that contains information related to downlink and uplink transmission schedules and allocations. An IoT device receives the common downlink synchronization signal and transmits uplink data only after receiving the synchronization signal and system frame number signal.

Abstract: A radio resource configuration adjustment method includes detecting, by user equipment, an overheating problem or that the overheating problem is alleviated, and sending, by the user equipment, a first message to a network device, where the first message is used to notify the network device that the overheating problem occurs in the user equipment or the overheating problem is alleviated; receiving, by the user equipment, a response message sent by the network device, where the response message is used to instruct the user equipment to perform one of the following operations, and the operations include deactivating a secondary serving cell, activating a secondary serving cell, releasing a secondary serving cell, and adding a secondary serving cell; and deactivating, by the user equipment, a secondary serving cell, or activating a secondary serving cell, or releasing a secondary serving cell, or adding a secondary serving cell according to the response message.

Abstract: In a method for adapting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology configuration for use in a communication network one or more OFDM numerology configurations are adaptively selected at a first communication device to be used in communication with one or more second communication devices. Adaptively one or more OFDM numerology configurations includes selecting at least one combination of two or more of (i) a guard interval duration, (ii) a tone spacing, (iii) a starting location of the selected guard interval duration, and (iv) a starting location of the selected tone spacing. A physical layer (PHY) data unit to be transmitted to a second communication device is generated at the first communication device. The PHY data unit is generated using one of the one or more adaptively selected OFDM numerology configurations to generate OFDM symbols of at least a portion of the PHY data unit.

Abstract: A synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission method includes: determining corresponding energy detection modes for a current SSB, the energy detection modes including a first or a second energy detection mode, the first energy detection mode configured to detect energy of a channel in respective beam directions of at least two SSBs in an SSB group where the current SSB is located before sending at least two SSBs in the SSB group where the current SSB is located, and the second energy detection mode configured to detect energy of a channel in the beam direction of the current SSB before sending the current SSB; and detecting the energy of the channel for the current SSB using the determined energy detection mode; if the channel is free, sending the current SSB. The needs of different frequency bands and different network distributions, etc. can be met in the case of NR-U independent networking.

Abstract: This application relates to enhanced coverage communication using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). PUCCH puncturing may be performed in relation to frequency hopping.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus of a base station of a first operator in a wireless communication system includes: at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operatively coupled with the at least one transceiver, and the at least one processor is configured to transmit a first signal during a first slot regarding the first operator in a contention duration, and to determine occupancy of a band in an access duration, based on a priority of the first operator, and the priority is determined according to at least one second signal which is detected before the first slot in the contention duration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the network node configuring a UE (User Equipment) with a first DRB (Data Radio Bearer), wherein the first DRB is configured with a presence of SDAP (Service Data Adaptation Control) header and the network node is not allowed to reconfigure the first DRB with an absence of SDAP header before the first DRB is released. The method further includes the network node configuring the UE to serve a first QoS (Quality of Service) flow and a second QoS flow by the first DRB. The method also includes re-configuring the UE to serve the first QoS flow by a second DRB, which was originally served by the first DRB, if the second QoS flow is released or removed from the first DRB, wherein the second DRB is configured with an absence of SDAP header.

Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for signaling reference signals and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for wireless communications. An embodiment method implemented by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communications measurements and CSI feedback includes receiving, from a network, at least one of a first index that indicates a corresponding non-zero-power CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource, a second index that indicates a corresponding zero-power CSI-RS resource, a third index that indicates a corresponding CSI-RS resource for interference measurement, and a fourth index that indicates a corresponding channel quality indicator (CQI) report configuration.

Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for signaling and decoding of punctured sub-bands in a trigger-based PPDU. In one aspect, at least one of the communication interface or the processing circuitry of a wireless communication device is configured to generate a trigger frame that includes signaling indicating that at least one other wireless communication device is allowed to reduce a bandwidth of an allocated resource unit (RU) for transmitting data via a communication channel; transmit, via the communication channel, the trigger frame to at least one other wireless communication device; receive, via the communication channel and from the at least one other wireless communication device, an uplink (UL) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame including the data; and process the UL OFDMA frame including the data based on the signaling.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for allocating cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) radio transmission resources for transmitting messages in a C-V2X network from amongst a pool of initial resources from within a plurality of subframes. For each subframe in the plurality of subframes, it is determined whether transmitting in the subframe is likely to cause reception degradation with other C-V2X messages being transmitted in the network, and if yes, all resources in the subframe are excluded prior to allocating a resource for transmission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication technique for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method for communicating by a base station according to the present invention comprises transmitting control information relating to at least two services to a terminal; and transmitting data relating to the at least two services to the terminal, wherein at least one of a control region for transmitting the control information and a data region for transmitting the data may include at least two frequency bandwidths corresponding to each of the at least two services.

Abstract: A network assistance node (300), a wireless device (302), a network node (304), an opposite node (306) and methods therein, for handling communication of data between the wireless device and the opposite node over a radio bearer in a cell. When detecting (3:2) that a potential data class is requested which tolerates a certain delay for delivering the data, the network assistance node obtains (3:5) from the network node availability of a potential data bearer dedicated for the potential data class, which availability is dependent on whether a cost related parameter associated with the wireless device fulfils a threshold condition. The network assistance node then reports (3.6) availability of the potential data class to the wireless device and the opposite node, indicating that the potential data bearer is available for data of the potential data class.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuity configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a first parameter used for configuring a periodicity. The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a RRC message comprising a second parameter used for configuring a number of repetitions. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on the first parameter and the second parameter, repetitions of transmissions of a transport block. The UE is not expected to be configured with the number of repetitions larger than the number of slots within the period.

Abstract: According to embodiments, a method includes: receiving first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a TBS threshold; receiving second indication information from a network device, where the second indication information indicates a quantity N of candidate TBSs; obtaining a first TBS set, where a quantity of elements in the first TBS set is equal to the quantity N of the candidate TBSs, and a largest TBS in the first TBS set is less than or equal to the TBS threshold indicated by the first indication information; selecting, from the first TBS set, a target TBS to be used for transmission of first data, where the target TBS is a smallest TBS, in the first TBS set, greater than or equal to a TBS required by the first data; and sending the first data to the network device based on the target TBS.

Abstract: Tools and methods for optimizing the selection and placement of wireless radio devices in a wireless network within a geographic region using a remote database that includes a geographic mapping of existing wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, device characteristics for the wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, and radio frequency spectral information across times for a plurality of regions (e.g., corresponding to locations of existing wireless devices). A tool may include a local user interface, a remote database, and a processor that communicates with the user interface and remote database.

Abstract: The present invention is designed to suitably reduce the degradation of spectral efficiency even when communication is performed using a waveform of a single-carrier transmission scheme. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a downlink control signal, which schedules transmission of a data signal in accordance with a waveform that is based on a single-carrier transmission scheme, and a transmission section that transmits a sounding reference signal, which is different from an uplink sounding reference signal used in existing LTE and which has a wider transmission bandwidth than the data signal, by using the waveform based on the single-carrier transmission scheme.