Abstract: Wireless communications may comprise communications between a base station and a wireless device. Wireless resources, such as bandwidth parts, may be used for the wireless communications. Based on a determination to switch a wireless resource, another wireless resource may be activated within a time duration. The time duration may be based on whether the wireless resource to be activated and the wireless device to be switched are in a same group of wireless resources.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, articles of manufacture and systems for providing secondary coverage in a mobile communication system are disclosed. Example methods for a first device to provide secondary coverage in a mobile communication system include transmitting a secondary coverage signal and receiving a presence indication from a second device. Such example methods can also include reporting the presence indication to an access node of the mobile communication system. Such example methods can further include receiving information from the access node to enable relay node functionality in the first device in response to reporting the presence indication to the access node.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer products for fast wakeup recovery for narrow-band internet of things (NBIOT) systems are provided. The fast wakeup recovery may wakeup a NBIOT device from a sleep mode to an active mode. The fast wakeup recovery may identify a servicing cell for the NBIOT device to synchronize with. The fast wakeup recovery may be based on a coarse timing detection operation using a NPSS and a fine timing detection operation using a NSSS.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for extracting EtherCAT datagrams from an EtherCAT frame. One method includes receiving an EtherCAT frame. The method includes determining a first EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT frame for a first device and a second EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT frame for a second device. The method includes extracting the first EtherCAT datagram from the EtherCAT frame to result in an extracted first EtherCAT datagram and the second EtherCAT datagram from the EtherCAT frame to result in an extracted second EtherCAT datagram. The method includes transmitting the extracted first EtherCAT datagram directly to the first device. The method includes transmitting the extracted second EtherCAT datagram directly to the second device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a service transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining a traffic volume in a first time unit; determining, based on the traffic volume and a first mapping relationship, to enable a first quantity of radio frequency channels in the first time unit, where the first mapping relationship includes a mapping relationship between the traffic volume and a quantity of radio frequency channels; and transmitting a service through the first quantity of radio frequency channels in the first time unit, where the service includes at least one of a data channel and a reference signal.

Abstract: An evolved Node B (eNB) for providing automatic ENDC enabling. Measurement reports are generated during a prior handover by user equipment (UE) configured in 5G NR connected mode. The measurement reports are received at a 4G LTE evolved Node B. Based on the measurement reports, the 4G LTE eNB determines a number of Automatic ENDC Enable (AEE) criterion being met during a predetermined time period that is greater than a threshold. In response to the number of Automatic ENDC Enable (AEE) criterion met during the predetermined time period being greater than the threshold, ENDC is automatically enabled for the 4G LTE eNB.

Abstract: With advanced compute capabilities and growing convergence of wireless standards, there is requirement to run multiple wireless standards, e.g., 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi, on a single hardware together. Typical solution includes reserving some computing resources for specific wireless standards. Such a resource strategy may not be optimized or efficient according to the real needs for various wireless standards. The present disclosure presents embodiments of using a unified resource controller to take multiple scheduling inputs across various wireless standards, allocate resources among a plurality of configurable processing units, and manage hardware components for data path accelerations including forward error correction, and signal processing implementation. The multiplexing multiple wireless technologies based on spectral utilization may improve the efficiency in power consumption and hardware resources utilization.

Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for joint-processing of random access channel communications to improve the reliability and/or the geographic range of a random access procedure for a user equipment. Joint-processing, including joint-transmission and/or joint-reception, by a user equipment-coordination set on behalf of a single user equipment, or by an Active Coordination Set of base stations with the single user equipment, can improve the link budget of Random Access Channel communications and facilitate network access for a user equipment at a greater distance from a base station or in the face of challenging channel conditions.

Abstract: Provided are a signal transmission method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes determining a first determination mode and/or a second determination mode, and the first determination mode is a mode for determining first SRS transmission corresponding to an uplink signal, and the second determination method is a mode for determining a first antenna port corresponding to the uplink signal; and transmitting the first determination mode and/or the second determination mode to a UE, and the UE determines the first SRS transmission according to the first determination mode, and/or determines the first antenna port according to the second determination mode, and transmits the uplink signal according to the first SRS transmission and/or the first antenna port.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink message via a sidelink transmission resource of a shared sidelink resource pool that is shared between a communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and communications according to a second RAT. The UE may map sidelink transmission resource occasions of the shared resource pool to a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) occasion and map subchannels of the sidelink transmission occasions to respective resources of the PSFCH occasion. The UE may transmit a sidelink feedback message corresponding to the sidelink message using a resource of the PSFCH occasion corresponding to a subchannel carrying sidelink control information of the sidelink message.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method performed a network entity in a wireless communication system using an open-radio access network (O-RAN), the network entity including at least one of a non-real-time RAN intelligent controller (non-RT RIC) and near-RT RIC, the method comprises configuring at least one node with a list of cell IDs representing cells to be activated or deactivated based on a condition in a network, and transmitting, to the at least one node, information including the list of cell IDs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device to perform sidelink communication. In one embodiment, the first device sends or reports a resource set to a second device, wherein the resource set comprises one or more sidelink resources in one or more slots in a carrier or cell. Furthermore, when the first device performs sidelink resource (re-)selection procedure for selecting a first sidelink resource in the carrier or cell, the first device prevents or precludes from selecting or determining (any) sidelink resources in the one or more slot in the carrier or cell for selecting the first sidelink resource.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes connectors and protection switching circuitry. A first connector connects the cable assembly to a first switch, which has a first network path to a first host device. A second connector connects the cable assembly to a second switch, which has a second network path to the first host device. A third connector is connected to the first and second connectors via respectively a first cable and a second cable and connects the cable assembly to a second host device. The protection switching circuitry is embedded in the cable assembly and: establishes a communications connection to transfer data between the host devices using a first data path, which includes the first network path, connector, cable, and switch; determines the first data path is degraded; and in responsive, switches the communications connection to a second data path, which includes the second network path, connector, cable, and switch.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating a programmable smart repeater with in-band control are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a repeater includes establishing a control link with a control node and receiving, via the control link, a configuration for the repeating unit component of the repeater to forward communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device on an access link. The example method also includes transitioning an MT component of the repeater to an RRC inactive mode or an RRC idle mode for at least a period of time after receiving the configuration and forwarding the communication between the first wireless device and the second wireless device on the access link based on the configuration while the MT component of the repeater is in the RRC inactive mode or the RRC idle mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of sending paging signaling, including: receiving first identifier information of a terminal in an authorized frequency band from a base station; sending paging signaling including the first identifier information to the base station. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, after receiving the first identifier information from the base stations, the core network may send paging signaling to these base stations sending the first identifier information, such that these base stations sending the first identifier information may further broadcast the paging signaling to page the terminal.

Abstract: A transmission method includes: transmitting a PDCCH in a first CORESET, where the number of RBs in the first CORESET is less than or equal to the number of RBs in a second CORESET, and the second CORESET is configured by higher layer signaling in a PBCH.

Abstract: A method for performing a handover operation includes using one or more processors of a non-terrestrial node to initiate communication with a first terrestrial node of a network, the terrestrial node having a first unique node identifier and a cell identifier and store a mapping that associates the first unique node identifier with the cell identifier. The method also includes using the one or more processors to receive an indicator that the mapping is subject to change and update the mapping to associate a second unique node identifier of a second terrestrial node of the network with the cell identifier based on the received indicator.

Abstract: A transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: acquiring a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) parameter, and performing at least one PUCCH repetition transmission according to the PUCCH parameter, where the parameter is configured by higher-layer signaling, and comprises at least one of: a plurality of spatial relation information groups, or a frequency hopping transmission parameter, each piece of spatial relation information corresponding to a set of power control parameters.

Abstract: There is presented a method for a network node for reducing interference in a wireless device (200), the wireless device operating using a time division0duplex. TDD, configuration in a cell, from at least another wireless device operating in a neighbouring cell using another TDD configuration. The TDD configuration is divided into different time units for at least downlink, DL, and uplink. UL, transmission. The method includes assigning time units in the TDD configuration to one of at least two time unit groups, where the assignment of a time unit to a time unit group is based the interference from the neighboring cell using the another TDD configuration. The method further includes using different link adaptions for the at least two time unit groups. The is also presented a network node.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a DRX parameter configuration method, a DRX processing method, a network node, and a user equipment. The DRX parameter configuration method is applied in the network node and includes: determining (101) one or more service types corresponding to a User Equipment (UE) based on the characteristic information of the UE; configuring (102) a DRX parameter for each of the one or more service types; and transmitting (103) the DRX parameter to the UE. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, requirements of data transmission under different application scenes can be met.