Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit which receives, from a base station apparatus, a physical downlink control channel including downlink control information in a search space specific to the terminal apparatus; and a control unit which determines the number of bits of a time domain resource allocation field in the downlink control information. The time domain resource allocation field is a time domain resource allocation field for a physical downlink shared channel. A default table indicates a time domain resource allocation configuration for the physical downlink shared channel. When a parameter is not received, the number of bits of the time domain resource allocation field is determined based on the number of the in the default table.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating autonomous synchronization are disclosed herein. For example, a UE may be configured to perform an initial synchronization directly to PSCCH and PSSCH when other synchronization sources, such as GNSS, a base station, and/or SLSS, are unavailable. An example method for wireless communication at a user equipment includes receiving a PSCCH. The example method also includes performing an initial synchronization based on the PSCCH. In some examples, the method may also include receiving a PSSCH, and determining a logical subframe number modulo 10 based on the PSSCH. The logical subframe number modulo 10 may correspond to a sequence seed.

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising: an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver configured to communicate with an external communication device; a processing unit configured to switch the UWB transceiver between different transceiver modes of operation while the UWB transceiver receives or transmits a data frame; wherein the different transceiver modes of operation include a ranging mode, an angle-of-arrival (AoA) mode and/or a radar mode. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating a communication device is conceived. In accordance with a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program is provided.

Abstract: A resource selection method of a sidelink terminal in a wireless communication system is presented. The method determines resource selection sub windows in a resource selection window on the basis of a repetitive transmission frequency for a sidelink message, and selects a resource for the transmission of the sidelink message in each of the resource selection sub windows, wherein the repetitive transmission frequency includes initial transmission and retransmission frequency for the sidelink message.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling operation associated with a physical channel has started. The UE may change an activity state of a reception operation associated with periodic downlink communications based at least in part on determining that the uplink DMRS bundling operation has started. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a downlink configuration including a set of resources for receiving downlink transmissions. The UE may determine, based on the downlink configuration, an uplink configuration including a set of resources for transmitting scheduling requests at a set of scheduling request occasions. In some aspects, the set of scheduling request occasions may be arranged according to a non-uniform spacing pattern in the time domain. The UE may transmit, to a base station, one or more scheduling requests based on the uplink configuration.

Abstract: A method for a terminal for reporting measurement data may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, interference measurement resource (IMR) configuration data or sounding reference symbol (SRS) configuration data for measuring terminal-to-terminal (UE-to-UE) cross-link interference; measuring UE-to-UE cross-link interference on the basis of IMR or SRS configuration data; and transmitting a report containing the measured UE-to-UE cross-link interference measurement value to the base station.

Abstract: A first electronic device comprises a communication circuitry, and a memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor coupled with the communication circuitry; wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive, from a second electronic device that is an upper node of the first electronic device, information regarding a specified waveform; while detecting that a vehicle associated with the first electronic device is not in an emergency state after receiving the information, transmit, to the second electronic device, a signal based on resources allocated from the second electronic device; and in response to detecting that the vehicle is in the emergency state alter receiving the information, transmit, to the second electronic device, a signal with the specified waveform independently from the allocated resources, wherein the signal with the specified waveform includes information for notifying that the vehicle is in the emergency state.

Abstract: A frequency offset estimation method, device, communication device and storage medium are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a main peak and a secondary peak of a PRACH signal when detecting that an access signal is in the PRACH signal sent by the signal sending end, wherein the PRACH signal is composed of a preset number of identical leader sequences; determining a first frequency offset according to a peak value of the main peak and a peak value of the secondary peak; performing a frequency offset compensation on the PRACH signal according to the first frequency offset, to obtain a compensation sequence after the frequency offset compensation; and calculating a frequency offset between the compensation sequence and the leader sequences, to obtain a second frequency offset, so as to estimate a time delay of the access signal according to the second frequency offset.

Abstract: A wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a message indicating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. The wireless communication device also includes a processor configured to determine the TCI state based on the message, a non-serving cell identifier, and a received reference signal from a non-serving cell.

Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a base station, an uplink (UL) power change capability indication. The base station receives the UL power change capability indication, and transmits, to the UE, scheduling information for one or more UL transmissions that include one or more UL power changes based on the UL power change capability indication.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a communication method and a device. Second user equipment executes some tasks required for communication between first user equipment and a network device, and the first user equipment properly communicates with the second user equipment. In this way, energy consumption of the first user equipment required for communication with the network device can be reduced, thereby prolonging a standby time and improving user experience.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include collecting underlay flow data within a network and associating underlay flow data with a source and a destination virtual network to enable insights into network operation and performance. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes identifying, for each underlay data flow, a source overlay network and a destination overlay network associated with the underlay data flow, wherein identifying includes retrieving, from one or more Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) databases, information identifying the source and destination overlay networks.

Abstract: A session management function entity selection method includes receiving a reselection indication and information about a first session of user equipment UE from a first session management function entity, where the reselection indication is used to instruct to reselect a session management function entity; saving a correspondence between the first session management function entity and the information about the first session according to the reselection indication; receiving a session establishment request message, where the session establishment request message carries the information about the first session; determining a second session management function entity different from the first session management function entity; and sending a session management request to the second session management function entity.

Abstract: A method for provisioning radio resources for Idle or Inactive mode user equipment in wireless network includes configuring by a network node for Idle or Inactive mode of a UE, a plurality of reference signals comprising of reuse of at least one of Connected mode reference signal including at least one of Non-Zero Power Channel State Indicator Reference Signal (NZP-CSI-RS) resource, Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) resource, Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) resource. A new reference signal including at least one of NZP-CSI-RS resource, TRS resource, PTRS resource and new Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) or DMRS like signal is configured. The UE is enabled based on at least one of the reference signals from the configured plurality of reference signals for performing one or more of at least one of gain, time, phase and frequency synchronization, Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements, and Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) assumption for Paging PDCCH decoding.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a grant associated with a plurality of physical shared channel resources. The UE may transmit a communication, associated with the grant, including a downlink assignment index field with a value calculated based at least in part on the plurality of physical shared channels, wherein a configuration of the downlink assignment index field is based at least in part on a quantity of start and length indicator values configured for the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate an indication of a UE capability for switching polarizations of one or more antennas of the UE. The UE may transmit the indication. The UE may also use a default polarization. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a control message over a physical control channel in a first of a plurality of time slots, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs. Further, the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel. The UE is further configured to transmit a signal in uplink physical channel in a second time slot to a base station having a transmission power level based on the power control bits received in the control message.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a multilevel encoding scheme, a transmitting device may divide a stream of information bits in a message into multiple substreams, and the transmitting device may input each substream to a different level of an encoder such that each substream is encoded separately. The transmitting device may also input excess bits to some levels of the encoder to add physical layer security to the message. To improve the chances that a receiving device is able to correctly decode the message, the receiving device may be configured to identify the levels at which the excess bits are encoded. Accordingly, the receiving device may be able to decode the information bits in the message and avoid attempting to decode the excess bits in the message as information bits.