Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a system information block, a paging message, or both. The UE may determine a priority level associated with relaying the system information block, the paging message, or both on a sidelink channel. The UE may transmit, to a second UE on the sidelink channel, the system information block, the paging message, or both based on the priority level.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for wireless communication are described. One example method of wireless communication includes selecting, by a wireless device, a monitoring behavior for monitoring a control channel. The method further includes, monitoring, by the wireless device, the control channel according to the monitoring behavior. The monitoring behavior may include a skipping operation during which monitoring is disabled.

Abstract: A method and system to control carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system including a first access node and a second access node, where the first access node has a first respective backhaul connection, where the second access node has a second respective backhaul connection, where the first access node supports serving user equipment devices (UEs) with standalone connectivity, and where the first and second access nodes cooperatively support serving UEs with dual connectivity. A method includes detecting that the second respective backhaul connection of the second access node is threshold heavily loaded. And the method includes, based at least in part on the detecting that the second respective backhaul connection of the second access node is threshold heavily loaded, causing the first access node to suppress an extent of carrier-aggregation service that the first access node will provide to any standalone-connected UEs, to help free up capacity for dual-connectivity service.

Abstract: Facilitating energy aware multi-cell admission control in advanced communication networks is provided herein. A method includes, based on notification of a denial of an admission request by a first cell, facilitating a transmission of the admission request to a second cell and at least a third cell. The second cell and the third cell are neighbor cells of the first cell. The admission request can be received from a user equipment. The method also includes, based on receipt of an acceptance of the admission request from the second cell and the third cell, and based on a determination that a first utility of the second cell is higher than a second utility of at least the third cell, selecting the second cell as an admission cell for the user equipment. Further, the method includes facilitating admission of the user equipment to a cell cluster via the second cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for wireless communication. One example method includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, capability information indicating whether the terminal device supports determining a candidate of a measurement gap of positioning reference signal (PRS); receiving, by the terminal device, positioning measurement information of PRS sent by a location management function (LMF); determining, by the terminal device, a first measurement gap for positioning measurement of PRS according to the positioning measurement information of PRS; and transmitting, by the terminal device, information of the first measurement gap to a base station or to the LMF.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of performing data transmission by a wireless node configured with a first logical channel and a second logical channel in a wireless communication system. Especially, the method includes the steps of obtaining a first uplink data of the first logical channel and a second uplink data of the second logical channel; receiving an uplink resource from a peer wireless node; generating a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) including at least one of the first uplink data and the second uplink data, based on a threshold related to the second uplink data; and transmitting the MAC PDU based on the uplink resource to the peer wireless node, wherein, based on a buffer size (BS) of the first logical channel being equal to or larger than the threshold, the MAC PDU is generated to include the first uplink data without the second uplink data.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for protocol stacks and bearer modeling for assisted Uu connectivity. A UE and a PN may each establish a first connection with an AN and, based on the first connections with the AN, establish a second connection with each other. Based on a bearer configuration, the UE may determine whether to route data to the PN via the first connection with the AN or directly to the PN via the second connection with the PN. Accordingly, the UE may transmit the data to at least one of the AN or the PN based on the determination of whether to route the data to the PN via the first connection with the AN or directly to the PN via the second connection with the PN.

Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, in a first slot and from a base station, a first signal that is a downlink data signal in a first frequency resource allocation. The UE communicates, with the base station, a second signal in a second slot. A configured time gap between the first slot and the second slot is according to a comparison of the first frequency resource allocation and a second frequency resource allocation.

Abstract: A resource multiplexing method for sidelink ranging performed by a transmitting terminal includes performing a first sidelink transmission of a sidelink ranging signal and a physical sidelink channel through at least one of a frequency-division multiplexing or a time-division multiplexing within a same time unit. The sidelink ranging signal is a reference signal for measuring at least one of a distance or an angle; and the physical sidelink channel includes at least one of: a first physical sidelink channel for transmitting first sidelink control information; or a second physical sidelink channel for transmitting at least one of second sidelink control information or sidelink data. The first and second sidelink control information are related to at least one of a transmission of the sidelink data or the sidelink ranging signal; and at least one of the first physical sidelink channel, the second physical sidelink channel or a sidelink ranging signal transmission are associated with each other.

Abstract: A terminal (20) includes a transmission control unit (203). The transmission control unit (20) sets a plurality of LL transmission queues (113_LL1, 113_LL2, 113_LL3), into each of which is input low latency data, regarding which latency conditions relating to latency are stricter than predetermined latency conditions. The latency conditions demanded of the low latency data that is input are different from each other among the plurality of LL transmission queues (113_LL1, 113_LL2, 113_LL3).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating recovery from loss of medium synchronization for multi-link devices (MLDs) and renegotiating traffic identifier (TID)-to-link mapping for enhanced multi-link single radio (EMLSR) operation of MLDs in a wireless local area network. A non-access point (AP) MLD comprises STAs, each comprising a transceiver configured to form a link with a corresponding AP of an AP MLD, and a processor operably coupled to the STAs. A subset of the links are EMLSR links that are configured to operate in an EMLSR mode of operation. The processor is configured to generate, based on a determination that an EMLSR frame exchange sequence is occurring on a first one of the EMLSR links, a request for AP-assisted medium synchronization recovery (AAR) for a set of the other EMLSR links. At least one of the transceivers is further configured to transmit, to the AP MLD, the request for AAR.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining a configuration for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes determining a PDCP duplication configuration corresponding to at least one of multi-connectivity (MC) or carrier-aggregation (CA) for communication of at least one bearer with a user-equipment (UE), wherein the determination is based on an indication corresponding to a link quality for the communication, and sending an indication of the determined configuration for the communication of the at least one bearer.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for system information delivery through a sidelink relay in a NR network. In one novel aspect, on-demand system information is delivered to a remote UE through a PC5-RRC message. In one embodiment, the relay UE aggregates SI requests from one or more UEs in the SI Request destined to the gNB. In one embodiment, the PC5-RRC message is a PC5 unicast message based on an Uu-RRC broadcast SI Update message from the gNB. In another embodiment, the PC5-RRC message is a PC5 broadcast message, which includes a version number in a MAC header indicating an SI update broadcast. In yet another embodiment, the PC5-RRC message is a PC5 groupcast message. In one embodiment, the remote UE is in an RRC-IDLE state, and wherein the UE sends the SI Request message destined to the gNB through the sidelink in a PC5-RRC SI Request message.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing information to a network are disclosed. An eNodeB (eNB) may receive pattern information relating to connection state management behavior of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The eNB may receive this information over S1 signaling when a connection is established. The eNB may determine a time factor for connection state management, wherein the time factor may be based on the received information. The determine time factor may be used to adjust connection states of the WTRU.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing rate matching. A group common-physical downlink shared channel (GC-PDSCH) is received at a user equipment (UE) for communications in a common frequency resource (CFR). An information element that carries configurations for GC-PDSCH transmission in the CFR, is received at the UE. At least one parameter for determining a transport block size (TBS) for the GC-PDSCH transmission in the CFR is determined from at least one field of the information element. The TBS for the GC-PDSCH transmission in the CFR is determined based on the at least one parameter.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a first communication circuit configured to support communication according to a Bluetooth protocol; a second communication circuit configured to support communication according to an ultra-wideband (UWB) protocol; a processor; and a memory.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing wireless devices, specifically for managing transitions between SU-MIMO pairing and MU-MIMO pairing based on group membership and signal quality. Methods include monitoring a signal quality between an access node and one or more wireless devices, determining that a signal quality metric is below a threshold, and determining that the one or more wireless devices belongs to one or more groups based at least in part on a required Quality of Service (QoS) of the one or more wireless devices. The methods further include transitioning the one or more wireless devices from SU-MIMO pairing to MU-MIMO pairing based on the determining that the one or more wireless devices belongs to the one or more groups and the determining that the signal quality metric is below the threshold.

Abstract: This application provides a service chain fault protection method, an apparatus, a device, a service chain fault protection system, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of communications technologies. In this application, in an SRV6 static service chain scenario, when a link between an SF network element and an SFF accessed by the SF network element is faulty, a secondary SID is introduced to update a destination address field of a packet header of a packet to the secondary SID, so that the packet is bypassed, based on the secondary SID, to another SFF accessed by the SF network element, thereby implementing fault protection in the link between the SFF and the SF network element.

Abstract: A communication system for unmanned stores includes a management server and an access point connected to a communication network. In-store devices are configured to provide information to a system processing device by wireless communication via the access point and each include a first wireless controller for communicating with the access point according to certain parameters and a second wireless controller for directly communicating with the other in-store devices. A processor in an initial setup mode turns on the second wireless controller, determines whether the in-store device is a representative terminal based on information stored in a local storage unit. If the in-store device is a representative terminal, initial setting information is broadcast via the second wireless controller. The initial setting information includes the certain parameters for the other in-store devices. If not a representative terminal, the processor waits for reception of initial setting information.

Abstract: A communications system may include user equipment (UE) devices, communications satellites, gateways, a satellite communications (satcom) network, and network performance monitoring devices. The monitoring devices may generate forward link signal information associated with forward link signals received from the satellites and may generate reverse link packets transmitted to the gateways via the satellites. The monitoring devices and the gateways may generate reverse link signal information associated with the reverse link packets. The satcom network may identify differences between the first and second reverse link signal information or between the forward link signal information and predicted forward link signal information for the monitoring devices. When the differences exceed a threshold value, the satcom network may generate and transmit error information used to diagnose, debug, and/or repair the potential errors in the constellation or gateways.