Abstract: A wireless device (16) receives a control message (26) that indicates a nested conditional configuration (28). The nested conditional configuration (28) includes an outer conditional configuration (28-1) and an inner conditional configuration (28-2). The wireless device (16) is to apply the outer conditional configuration (28-1) if the wireless device (16) detects fulfillment of an outer trigger condition. The wireless device (16) is to apply the inner conditional configuration (28-2) if the wireless device (16) detects fulfillment of both the outer trigger condition and an inner trigger condition.

Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing radio resources to facilitate a predicted transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include predicting that a user equipment of a group of user equipment in an idle mode will transition to an active mode after passage of a time duration, starting from the predicting, that is lower than a time threshold. The method can further include identifying base station equipment that is able to provide coverage to the user equipment during the passage of the time duration before the user equipment transitions to the active mode. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of, within the group of user equipment, an antenna resource of the base station equipment to provide the coverage to facilitate an active mode connection by the user equipment to the base station equipment.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to establishing a control connection with at least a first node for receiving control information for providing a repeater function for two or more upstream nodes, communicating control information over the control connection from at least the first node, and providing, based on the control information, the repeater function between at least a first upstream node of the two or more upstream nodes and at least one downstream node and between at least a second upstream node of the two or more upstream nodes and the at least one downstream node or at least another downstream node.

Abstract: A status communication is received that is associated with a mesh network comprising a plurality of interconnected node devices. Responsive to the status communication, it is determined whether a configuration policy of the mesh network has been violated. Responsive to a determination that the configuration policy of the mesh network has been violated, a configuration communication comprising an updated configuration is transmitted by a processing device to a first node device of the plurality of node devices to modify the first node device from performing a first service within the mesh network to performing a second service.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) receiving, from a base station, one or more random access channel (RACH) configurations. The RACH configurations may allocate resources for a contention-based RACH procedure for accessing a wireless network. Based on the RACH configurations, the UE may determine a set of random access occasions for an association period. From the set of random access occasions, the UE may map one or more indices of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks to one or more random access occasions. Using the one or more random access occasions, the UE may transmit a random access sequence, including one or more repetitions of the random access sequence to the base station to access the wireless network.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for managing network slice for terminal device. A first aspect of the present disclosure provides a method performed at a server function, comprising: determining to change a network slice for a terminal device; and transmitting, to an exposure function, a request to change the network slice for the terminal device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a server may be able to change the network slice for a terminal device.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes local breakout for edge computing systems, wherein the local breakout selectively routes the traffic from/to a user equipment between an edge compute node or some other service such as a core network, cloud computing service, or the like. Packets related to microservices that are offered by the edge compute node are routed to the edge compute node instead of routing those packets to the core network, and packets that are not related to the microservices provided by the edge compute node are routed to the core network or to another network such as a data network or cloud computing service. In these ways, the local breakout mechanisms provide low latency and reduced network resource consumption for the microservices and decreased data traffic load on the core network.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a method is performed by a wireless device The method includes: determining an activation or a deactivation of a first serving cell associated with a first physical channel; sending a corresponding Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, in a second physical channel, a subcarrier spacing configuration of the first physical channel being different from a subcarrier spacing of the second physical channel; and performing a procedure related to the first serving cell based at least in part on a time offset, k, the time offset, k, being based at least in part on a reference physical channel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling security information between a wireless device and a network for a fast RRC release procedure in a wireless communication system will be provided. A core network node in a wireless communication system receives, from a radio access network (RAN) node, a UE context resume request message including a fast Radio Resource Control (RRC) release indication. The fast RRC release indication informs that the RAN node transmits an RRC release message to a wireless device before the core network node receives the UE context resume request message. A core network node determines to stop computation of new security information for the wireless device based on the fast RRC release indication. A core network node transmits a UE context resume response message to the RAN node.

Abstract: Disclosed are a beam switching method and apparatus, relating to the field of wireless communications, and used for reducing beam switching time and reducing the signaling overhead of switching. The method comprises: determining a beam that needs to be switched, and obtaining the beam identifier of a switched beam and physical random access channel (PRACH) resource indication information; and after the switching of the beam is completed, transmitting, to a network device on the time frequency resource of the switched beam indicated by the PRACH resource indication information, a PRACH signal used for indicating that the switching of the beam is completed. By means of the beam switching method, a beam switching process does not need to transmit an RRC signaling to the network device, and does not need to wait to establish an RRC connection with the network device.

Abstract: A secondary node (SN) for requesting a master node (MN) to page a user equipment (UE) operating in dual connectivity (DC) with the MN and the SN receives, from a core network (CN), downlink traffic for the UE in an inactive state of a protocol for controlling radio resources, the inactive state being associated with a suspended radio connection between the UE and a radio access network (RAN) (802), and transmits, to the MN, a message that causes the MN to initiate RAN paging of the UE (804).

Abstract: In a wireless communication network implementing network slicing (NS), an Initial Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) for a user equipment (UE) in one NS is able to re-allocate a UE to a Target AMF in a different NS, despite not being able to directly communicate with the Target AMF due to NS security restrictions. In a first embodiment, the Initial AMF transfers the UE context—including its security context—to a Default AMF. The Default AMF has the capability to communicate with network functions in different NSes. The Default AMF transfers the UE context to the Target AMF. In a second embodiment, a security key Kamf? is horizontally derived in a manner that avoids NS security conflicts. The derived key is transferred to the UE and Target AMF, which establish a security context. In a third embodiment, the Initial AMF allocates a Token, and transfers it, along with the UE security context (directly or via RAN) to the Default AMF. The Default AMF then transfers the security context to the Target AMF.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for SL communications are provided. An example method may include transmitting, to one or more UEs, an SL transmission in a first direction using a first precoder. The example method may further include retransmitting, to the one or more UEs based on a configured maximum number of directional retransmissions and without allocating additional processes and memory for the packet, the SL transmission in one or more directions different from the first direction using one or more precoders different from the first precoder based on a SL retransmission configuration.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a monitor circuit to monitor traffic of a plurality of sources through the apparatus and maintain telemetry information regarding the traffic based at least in part on telemetry rules received from the plurality of sources, wherein the monitor circuit is to determine whether to send a callback message to a selected one of the plurality of sources, the callback message including telemetry information associated with the traffic of the selected source through the apparatus; and a storage coupled to the monitor circuit, the storage to store the telemetry information, wherein the monitor circuit is to access the telemetry information from the storage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method and system for performing a movement of a service within a distributed system. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining one or more locations where the service is to be moved. The method further comprises for each of the one or more locations, computing a metric including a cross-cell cost (C-cost) or a data locality-cost (DL-cost) of the software service if a movement of the software service to a location was to occur, prior to performing the movement of the software service; and modelling a latency and availability of the system due to the movement of the software service to the location based on the metric. The method further comprises performing the movement of the service based on the modelled latency and availability of the system.

Abstract: An apparatus of a station (STA) includes memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to encode a capabilities element for transmission to an access point (AP). The capabilities element including a media access control (MAC) capabilities information field indicating a trigger frame MAC padding duration. The processing circuitry decodes an extremely high throughput (EHT) protocol data unit (PPDU) received in response to the capabilities element. The EHT PPDU includes an EHT trigger frame (EHT-TF) in a data portion of the EHT PPDU, a packet extension (PE) field, and a dummy orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol extending the PE field. The processing circuitry performs physical layer (PHY) and MAC processing of the EHT PPDU based on a duration of the dummy OFDM symbol.

Abstract: A method for enhanced autonomous uplink timing adjustment includes determining that a user equipment (UE) is traveling above a predetermined velocity. In response to the determination that the UE is traveling above the predetermined velocity, a maximum aggregate adjustment rate to an uplink timing for the UE and a maximum amount of a magnitude of a timing change to the uplink timing for the UE are determined. The uplink timing for the UE is adjusted based on the maximum aggregate adjustment rate and the maximum amount of the magnitude of the timing change.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, disclosed are a method for a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device for supporting same, the method including: transmitting message A related to a random access procedure, message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and comprising, in response to the message A, message B related to the random access procedure, wherein a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) for the PUSCH is transmitted based on a DM-RS port, and wherein the number of the DM-RS ports is {1, 2, 4}.

Abstract: A data plane integrated circuit that includes interfacing units (IFUs), Datapath units (DPUs); and a network on chip (NoC). The DPUs are arranged in local sets of DPUs that are proximate to each other, each local set is configured to (a) store an instance of packet header processing control data structures and (b) independently perform local packet header processing and transmission scheduling.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for a channel estimation and prediction operation in a wireless communication systems. A method of a BS comprises: receiving an SRS; partitioning, based on a partition policy, a frequency band of the SRS into sub-bandwidths in a frequency domain; generating, based on previously stored CSI in memory and the partition policy, a set of chunks corresponding to respective sub-bandwidths; performing CHPD operations corresponding to the respective sub-bandwidths to generate channel parameters, wherein different CHPD operations are applied to the respective sub-bandwidths; combining the channel parameters predicted from the respective sub-bandwidths in the frequency domain; and performing, based on the combined channel parameters, a channel estimation and prediction operation.