Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: The terminal device generates capability information, where the capability information includes an overall frequency separation class of the terminal device, and the overall frequency separation class indicates a maximum frequency separation between a lowest component carrier and a highest component carrier included in an uplink component carrier and a downlink component carrier supported by the terminal device; and the terminal device sends the capability information to the network device.

Abstract: A method of managing a network includes: obtaining a search request for a device of a plurality of devices of the network where the device is specified by a piece of network information associated with the device; searching a searchable data structure using the piece of the network information to obtain a search result where the search result comprises a location list of potential locations within the network where the device may be located; obtaining likelihood rankings of the potential locations; and providing a response to the search request using the search result and the likelihood rankings.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, capability signaling indicating one or more phase coherency capabilities of the UE for maintaining phase coherence across multiple uplink messages within a time interval, wherein each phase coherency capability is based on one or more channel usage characteristics associated with the time interval. The UE may receive, from the base station, a downlink message scheduling a set of uplink messages from the UE to the base station within the time interval. The UE may transmit the set of uplink messages within the time interval based on the downlink message and in accordance with at least one of the one or more phase coherency capabilities.

Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a message 1 including a random access preamble to a first network device; receiving DCI and a message 2 including downlink data scheduled by the DCI from the first network device, wherein the DCI and/or the message 2 include/includes first information, which is used to schedule ACK/NACK feedback information of the message 2; and sending the ACK/NACK feedback information to the first network device based on the first information. According to the application, the first information is used to schedule the ACK/NACK feedback information, therefore the terminal device may send the ACK/NACK feedback information of the message 2 to the first network device in an MT-EDT scenario based on the first information, thereby improving robustness of transmission of the downlink data in the message 2.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a measurement gap, and a terminal device. The method comprises: a terminal device determining, on the basis of a positional relationship between a first signal and a first BWP and a subcarrier spacing of the first signal, whether measurement of the first signal needs a measurement gap, wherein the first BWP is an active BWP of a serving cell, and the first signal is a reference signal sent by a target cell.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame and physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) designs that support distributed transmission. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may transmit a trigger frame soliciting a trigger-based (TB) PPDU from a wireless station (STA), where the trigger frame carries RU allocation information indicating a number (N) of tones allocated for the STA and carries tone distribution information indicating whether the N tones are allocated for a contiguous transmission or a distributed transmission. In some other implementations, an AP or a STA may transmit a PPDU carrying distributed signaling information indicating whether the PPDU is transmitted as a contiguous transmission or a distributed transmission.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for sending and receiving a signal, a terminal, an apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes: a sending side sending a synchronization signal block, wherein the synchronization signal block includes a primary synchronization signal, a secondary synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel, the primary synchronization signal occupying two OFDM symbols, and the secondary synchronization signal occupying two OFDM symbols, wherein a synchronization signal block pattern used in a slot where the synchronization signal block is located is a first synchronization signal block pattern when a normal CP is configured, and is a second synchronization signal block pattern different from the first synchronization signal block pattern when an extended CP is configured. A receiving side demodulates the synchronization signal block.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications device, such as a user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating a capability of the UE to receive one or more downlink messages during a time slot, and may receive one or more control signalings which schedule a first and a second downlink message during the time slot, indicate a first resource allocation scheduled by a first scheduling configuration, and indicate a second resource allocation scheduled by a second scheduling configuration. The UE may monitor for one or both of the first downlink message or the second downlink message during the time slot based on the one or more control signalings and the capability message. The capability message may indicate a capability of the UE to receive a single downlink message or receive more than one downlink message during the time slot.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for transmitting signal and channel information in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: determining a first time domain position associated with a transmission of a first block according to a first configuration; and transmitting a second block at the first time domain position according to a second configuration, wherein the second configuration is different from the first configuration.

Abstract: An electronic device may be connected (e.g., via an ethernet cable) to a router and/or an internet service provider (ISP) equipment at a user's location to monitor and/or test a connectivity status of a network being provided at the user's location. The electronic device may include lights that guide the user to determine by visual representations if their network connection is operational and/or whether the connection meets minimum functionality for various applications that run over the network connection, such as voice over (VO) IP and/or video-conferencing. In some cases, the electronic device may include a testing component capable of pinging one or more nodes (e.g., routers, testing servers, diagnostic logging servers, etc.) in order to determine a source of a connectivity issue (e.g., outage).

Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for puncturing and/or overlaying transmission in case of necessity of on-demand (e.g., urgent) commutations. In particular, transceivers, user equipments, systems, methods and non-transitory storage units are disclosed. For example, there is disclosed a transceiver of a wireless communication network, wherein the transceiver is configured to operate in a puncturing mode by puncturing a downlink, DL, transmission of payload information in a channel originally allocated to the DL transmission of payload information, to obtain, within the originally allocated channel for the DL transmission of payload information, a DL free area for an uplink, UL, transmission of a user equipment, UE, of the wireless communication network.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to Random Access Channel (RACH) optimization and Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) use cases and requirements for 5G networks. For example, embodiments disclosed herein automatically configure RACH parameters and neighbor relations for 5G networks that can generate biggest saving in resource utilization for mobile operators. The RACH optimization disclosed herein can automatically configure the RACH parameters in a cell to achieve the optimal RACH performance by reducing the network access and handoff time, and minimize the failures. The Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) management disclosed herein can automatically create and update the neighbor relations that can generate biggest saving in resource utilization for mobile operators.

Abstract: A data processing method, a device, an apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining first Channel State Information (CSI); and determining second CSI in the first CSI according to first information. The first information includes at least one of: a non-zero Linear Combination (LC) coefficient, a frequency domain component, a polarization direction, and an order between layers.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment from a base station associated with a cell, control information assigning a subframe as a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe for the user equipment, the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe including an extended cyclic prefix, the control information indicating resources allocated to the user equipment for uplink transmission within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe, wherein one or more other subframes for use by the user equipment include a normal cyclic prefix that is shorter in time than the extended cyclic prefix of the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe; and transmitting, by the user equipment, data via the resources allocated to the user equipment within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe.

Abstract: A UE may identify slots to transmit and/or receive information related to one or more HARQ processes in frame structure that includes both sub-band full duplex slot types and time division duplex slot types. Based on a first slot used for control information, a UE can identify a second slot for PUSCH or PDSCH communication based on an offset between the first slot and the second determined by calculating slot offsets (e.g., based on parameters received from a base station). In some aspects, a UE may exclude certain slot duplex types (e.g., SBFD or TDD) when calculating slot offsets. In some aspects, a UE may calculate slot offsets differently for different HARQ processes corresponding to one frame. In some aspects, slot offset behaviors may be based on priority of information associated with a HARQ process.

Abstract: Disclosed are a clustering and routing method and system for a wireless sensor network. The method includes: constructing an initial MECPT; constructing cluster trees and updating MECPT; calculating clustering competition coefficients of existing cluster heads relative to nodes other than a base station; determining whether the clustering competition coefficients are all ??; if yes, enabling non-clustered nodes to communicate with the base station following paths in the initial MECPT, and selecting child nodes of the base station in the initial MECPT as relay nodes; calculating weights about energy consumption of communication between the cluster heads and the relay nodes to get communication paths between nodes and the base station; or if no, clustering nodes based on the clustering competition coefficients, and updating the MECPT and cluster trees to which the nodes are added by an iteration process.

Abstract: Aspects relate to reporting channel state information. A base station may configure a user equipment to measure channel state information reference signals associated with full-duplex communication and channel state information reference signals associated with half-duplex communication. In response, the user equipment may report first channel state information associated with the full-duplex communication and second channel state information associated with the half-duplex communication. In some examples, the user equipment reports the second channel state information as a differential relative to the first channel state information. In some examples, the user equipment reports the first channel state information as a differential relative to the second channel state information.

Abstract: A user apparatus includes, a control unit configured to apply in a specific order a plurality of processing rules for determining a channel as a transmission candidate by dropping a channel or multiplexing channels and repeat the application until detecting no channel collision in a time domain, in a case where a channel associated with a first service type and a channel associated with a second service type collide with each other at least in a time domain, and for at least one of the channel associated with the first service type and the channel associated with the second service type, a plurality of channels associated with a same service type collide with each other at least in the time domain; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a base station apparatus, the channel as the transmission candidate for which no channel collision is detected in the time domain.

Abstract: A method for control channel transmission, comprising: configuring at least one search space group (SSG) containing at least two different search space sets; configuring at least one control resource set (CORESET) confined within one subband among the plurality of subbands; associating said at least one SSG with said at least one CORESET, the associated CORESET becoming a reference CORESET; associating the reference CORESET and at least one frequency shifted CORESET of the reference CORESET confined within at least another subband among the plurality of subbands, with said at least two different search space sets; the reference CORESET and the at least one frequency shifted CORESET sharing the same CORESET index; performing a listen before talk procedure over each subband of the plurality of subbands to detect available subbands; transmitting, within available subbands, a control channel within the reference CORESET and the at least one frequency shifted CORESET.

Abstract: This patent document discloses techniques that can be implemented in various embodiments to prevent the data transmission rate from decreasing due to the CP and GI while solving the multipath delay problem and maintaining low PAPR and channel estimation accuracy. In some embodiments of the disclosed technology, a wireless communication method can be implemented to generate a transmit waveform that is organized in transmission subframes, wherein a given transmission subframe includes one or more data block each including a data portion and a reference portion, wherein the reference portion includes a part of a reference signal that is included in at least one of the transmission subframes.