Abstract: Various designs for optimization of carrier aggregation (CA) capability signaling are discussed. A user equipment (UE) configured for CA determines to signal supported CA combinations that include a band, the band being one of a first band and a second band. The first band is a superset of the second band. The UE signals the supported CA combinations that include the band to the network. A base station receives a signal indicating the CA combinations supported by the UE that include the band. The base station determines CA combinations that include the first band and CA combinations that include the second band based on the CA combinations received from the UE.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a system information block (SIB) indicating a plurality of subband configurations. The UE may identify, based at least in part on one or more of the plurality of subband configurations, one or more uplink subbands in a time division duplexing (TDD) component carrier and one or more downlink subbands in the TDD component carrier. The one or more uplink subbands and the one or more downlink subbands may be frequency division duplexed within the TDD component carrier. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A wireless backhaul link is established via a low-band frequency division duplex (FDD) carrier between an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node and an IAB donor node or between the IAB node and another IAB node that is linked to the IAB donor node, in which the IAB donor node provides a backhaul connection to a core network of a wireless carrier network. Further, one or more corresponding wireless backhaul links are established between the IAB node and one or more additional IAB nodes via one or more corresponding low-band FDD carriers. When a user device is determined to be in range of the IAB node for an establishment of a wireless access link via a mid-band FDD carrier or a time division duplex (TDD) carrier, the wireless access link is established between the IAB node and the user device via the mid-band FDD carrier or the TDD carrier.

Abstract: An information indication method and device, and a computer storage medium are provided. Said method comprises: a terminal device receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) sent by a network device; the terminal device acquiring indication information according to frequency domain location information of the SSB, the indication information being used to indicate the attributes of a frequency band to which the SSB belongs, and the attributes of the frequency band comprising at least one of the following: an identifier of the frequency band, a minimum channel bandwidth, a subcarrier spacing of the SSB, and a subcarrier spacing of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus (e.g., a router) for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may determine to switch operations from a first radio frequency channel to a second radio frequency channel. The apparatus may analyze content of data packets handled by the apparatus. The apparatus may determine whether at least one online game is running on a set of devices connected to the apparatus based on the analysis of the content of the data packets. The apparatus may delay the switching of the operations from the first radio frequency channel to the second radio frequency channel when the at least one online game is miming on the set of devices connected to the apparatus.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for controlling a bandwidth part inactivity timer and a terminal thereof. The method comprises: determining a work switching state of a secondary cell for which a Bandwidth Part (BWP) is configured; and disabling, by a terminal when the work switching state switches from an activated state to a non-activated state, a bandwidth part inactivity timer corresponding to a BWP currently activated on the secondary cell.

Abstract: Provided are D2D communication methods and D2D-enabled wireless devices. The D2D communication method performed by a D2D-enabled wireless device includes transmitting signals in D2D subframes with a randomization pattern. The randomization pattern is designed based on relative subframe positions in a virtual pure D2D subframe sequence composed of multiple D2D subframes in one or more radio frames. In another embodiment, the eNB scheduling based resource allocation and the D2D-enabled wireless device selection on its own based resource allocation share a same randomization pattern design.

Abstract: This application discloses example application instance address translation methods. One example method includes receiving, by a control plane device from a mobile edge cloud control device, an address of a target application instance of an application service accessed by a terminal. The control plane device can then send the address of the target application instance to a first user plane device. The control plane device can then instruct the first user plane device to set, as the address of the target application instance, a destination address of an uplink packet that is of the terminal and is associated with the application service.

Abstract: The frequency band of an uplink channel of the first node is identical to the frequency band of a downlink channel of the second node. The frequency band of the uplink channel of the first node is different from the frequency band of a downlink channel of the first node. Uplink data from the terminal is received through the uplink channel of the first node; when the terminal is an intra-frequency terminal, downlink data is transmitted to the terminal through the downlink channel of the second node; and when the terminal is an inter-frequency terminal, downlink data is transmitted to the terminal through the downlink channel of the first node. The wireless communication method is compatible with intra-frequency terminals and inter-frequency terminals, and the inter-frequency terminal transmits uplink data through the first node and receive downlink data through the second node, thus implementing duplex communication and improving communication efficiency.

Abstract: A method for controlling an artificial intelligent (AI) device providing a travel service, and which includes learning, via a processer of the AI device, a plurality of daily patterns related with a user's wake-up time, a commuting time, and a travel route using a deep neural networks (DNN) model; determining, via the processor, whether the daily patterns satisfy predetermined conditions each time a corresponding daily pattern among the plurality of daily patterns is generated; determining, via the processor, that the user is currently traveling when at least one daily pattern among the plurality of daily patterns that does not satisfy the predetermined conditions is detected; setting, via the processor, a time when the at least one daily pattern that does not satisfy the predetermined conditions is detected for a first time as a starting point of travel; setting, via the processor, a time from the starting point of the travel to an end point of the travel as a travel period of the user when an end of the use

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a management frame identifying an operation mode for a basic service set of a local area network. An example disclosed method includes performing an assessment of a wireless network and determining an operation mode for a basic service set (BSS) bandwidth based on the assessment, the operation mode indicating continuity of a primary segment, a secondary segment, a tertiary segment and a quaternary segment. The example method further includes creating a management frame including information fields based on the BSS bandwidth, the information fields including a first channel width field, a second channel width field, a third channel width field, a first center frequency field, a second center frequency field and a third center frequency field and transmitting the management frame over the wireless network.

Abstract: An example computer-implemented method for transmitting data from a downhole location to the earth's surface. The method includes sensing, with one or more sensors, sensor data downhole, the sensor data comprising a plurality of data value sets. The method further includes assigning at least one data value of each of the plurality of data value sets to each of a plurality of time levels or depth levels to generate a data block. The method further includes compressing, with a first processor in the drilling assembly, the data block by a block-based compression technique to generate compressed data. The method further includes transmitting, with a telemetry system, the compressed data from the downhole location to the surface. The method further includes decompressing, with a second processor at the surface, the compressed data to generate decompressed data values. The method further includes controlling the drilling assembly based on the decompressed data values.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining UE measurement performance in communication systems, such as NR, are provided. One method may include grouping configured carriers according to synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) to form carrier groups, distributing measurement gaps on the configured carriers according to an intra-frequency and inter-frequency gap sharing rule, and distributing the measurement gaps available for inter-frequency measurements among inter-frequency carrier groups according to the carrier groups with non-overlapping synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) or the carrier groups with overlapping synchronization signal block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) to create a distribution of the measurement gaps.

Abstract: Methods for allocating uplink resources between UEs wherein previously allocated uplink resources may be allocated to a further UE and a suspension indication transmitted to the UE to which the resources were previously allocated. The methods including transmitting an indication from a base station to a UE indicating grant of a set of resources for an uplink transmission, and transmitting a DCI including a suspension indication.

Abstract: The present application discloses a sidelink data indication method and a terminal equipment. The method includes: determining indication information, the indication information including at least one of a first identifier or a second identifier, wherein the first identifier is used to identify a first logical channel, the second identifier is used to identify a second logical channel, the first logical channel is used to carry original sidelink data, the second logical channel is used to carry duplicated sidelink data, the duplicated sidelink data is obtained by duplicating the original sidelink data; and sending the indication information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for receiving a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include the steps of: receiving PTRS configuration information, wherein the PTRS configuration information includes information on a frequency density of a PTRS; receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein a plurality of TCI states are indicated on the basis of the DCI; and receiving the PTRS, wherein on the basis that resources in a frequency domain associated with each TCI state of the plurality of TCI states do not overlap with each other, the frequency density of the PTRS is determined by the number of resource blocks associated with each TCI state.

Abstract: A method, provided by the present disclosure, of transmitting a reference signal by a base station in a wireless communication system using a plurality of antenna ports including mapping wireless resources, for transmitting a reference signal, to a plurality of antenna ports for transmitting the reference signal; and using the wireless resources and transmitting the reference signal to a terminal through the mapped antenna ports. The mapping to the antenna ports is executed on the basis of a combination of a first mapping pattern between the wireless resources and the antenna ports and a second mapping pattern between the wireless resources and the antenna ports.

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a core network selection service is provided. The core network selection service may minimize end devices transitioning between core networks of a multi-radio access technology (RAT) radio access network (RAN) based on cell selection priority configurations. The cell selection priority configurations may be provisioned on the end device via control messaging, such as system information block messages. The core network selection service may manage the end devices when in idle mode and in a connected mode.

Abstract: A synchronization signal block information processing method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, identifiers of multiple SS/PBCH blocks (SSBs), wherein the identifier of the SSB is determined in accordance with demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequences of physical broadcast channels (PBCHs), and the identifier of the SSB is used for indicating a transmission position of the SSB within a set period of time; obtaining, by the terminal device, first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating a first quantity, and the first quantity is no more than a number of the SSBs sent by a network device within the set period of time; and determining, by the terminal device, a first SSB in the multiple SSBs and a second SSB in the multiple SSBs are quasi-co-located (QCL) in accordance with an identifier of the first SSB, an identifier of the second SSB and the first indication information.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method according to the disclosure includes receiving configuration information including a parameter for transmission of a synchronization signal block (SSB) from a base station, identifying a resource for transmission of the SSB based on the parameter, and in case that a condition for transmission of the SSB is satisfied, transmitting the SSB to a second terminal on the resource.