Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving control information and data information in a wireless communication system, and in an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of identifying transmission timing of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first signal from a base station, determining whether an out-of-order hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process occurs, determining transmission timing of a second signal, which is a response to the first signal, to include a processing time of the out-of-order HARQ process when the out-of-order HARQ process occurs, and transmitting the second signal at the determined transmission timing.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for opportunistic load balancing across one or more communication links supported by one or more base stations. As part of the opportunistic load balancing process, a load balancer may measure a performance metric and an idle capacity metric for the one or more communication links. In some embodiments, the load balancer may directionally measure the performance metric and the idle capacity metric. Based on the measured metrics, the load balancer may determine a candidate base station for a network socket. The load balancer may then establish the network socket with the candidate base station. As a result, the load balancer may help alleviate network congestion.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment (UE) performing radio link monitoring of a sidelink. The UE may transmit a signal over the sidelink and receive an indication of a type of hybrid automatic repeating request (HARQ) feedback in response to the signal. The UE may then generate a radio link metric associated with the sidelink based on the type of HARQ feedback. The UE may determine that the radio link metric satisfies a predetermined threshold and initiate a keep alive procedure for the sidelink based on the radio link metric satisfying the predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.

Abstract: Provided are an information transmission method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus. The method includes the following step: a PDSCH traffic with a length of a second TTI is received after an error of receiving a PDSCH traffic with a length of a first TTI is made; where a first transmission unit is supported in the first TTI, a second transmission unit and a third transmission unit are supported in the second TTI, and a transmission unit of the second TTI corresponds to a transmission unit of the first TTI.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and communication methods. The transmitting apparatus includes: a receiver, operative to receive, from a base station, first control information for sidelink communication between the transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus; and a transmitter, operative to transmit a physical sidelink shared channel to the receiving apparatus according to the first control information. The transmitter is operative not to transmit a first physical sidelink control channel to the receiving apparatus, or the transmitter is operative to transmit the first physical sidelink control channel with second control information to the receiving apparatus.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication may include communicating, by a first wireless communication device with a second wireless communication device, a first scheduling grant indicating a gap period within a first scheduled period and communicating, by the first wireless communication device with the second wireless communication device during the first scheduled period, a first communication signal including a first silence period corresponding to the gap period.

Abstract: Disclosed are a radio communication method and equipment. The radio communication method comprises: a user equipment determines, on the basis of mapping relations, an uplink scheduling request format corresponding to sidelink data that needs to be transmitted, the mapping relations comprising mapping relations between different sidelink data and different uplink scheduling request formats; and the user equipment transmits an uplink scheduling request to a network device on the basis of the uplink scheduling request format.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may adjust a basic safety message generation periodicity based at least in part on a semi-persistent scheduling periodicity for transmitting basic safety messages. The UE may generate one or more basic safety messages based at least in part on the adjusted basic safety message generation periodicity. Numerous other aspects are provided.

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 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: 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: 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 first user equipment (UE) can determine a slot, from a resource pool including a plurality of slots allocated for sidelink communications, for providing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback to a second UE via a sidelink channel. The determination may be based on a physical slot index or a logical slot index. The first UE may send the HARQ feedback on the sidelink channel in the slot, or refrain from sending the HARQ feedback, based on the determination. The first UE may determine the slot has a first slot index that is at least a preconfigured number of slots after a slot scheduled for sidelink data transmission having a second slot index.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink/downlink scheduling. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code, in various embodiments, determines an uplink schedule for data to be transmitted from a user equipment. In a further embodiment, the code determines a downlink schedule for data to be provided to the user equipment. The apparatus may include a transmitter that provides an uplink grant message to the user equipment to initiate an uplink transmission based on the uplink schedule. In certain embodiments, the uplink schedule and the downlink schedule are determined without using a predefined split pattern for uplink and downlink transmission.

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: 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: A method for transmitting feedback information between Internet-of-Vehicles (IOV) devices includes: a second IOV device receives at least one of first user data and scheduling control information of the first user data from a first IOV device; a second resource location of the first user data is determined based on a first resource location of the first user data, the first resource location indicating at least one of a time-frequency location of corresponding user data and a time-frequency location of scheduling control information of the corresponding user data; and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback information of the first user data is sent to the first IOV device based on the second resource location of the first user data.

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.