Abstract: A method for receiving information, a method for sending information, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method for receiving information includes: receiving indication information, where the indication information is used for indicating at least one transmission configuration indicator TCI state of a demodulation reference signal DMRS port on one or more resources allocated to the terminal; determining a correspondence between the at least one TCI state on the one or more resources and a code division multiplexing CDM group to which the DMRS port belongs; and receiving information according to the correspondence between the TCI state on the one or more resources and the CDM group to which the DMRS port belongs.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting information, and a storage medium, a terminal and a base station. The method can include determining feedback resource configuration information currently configured for a terminal, where the feedback resource configuration information includes multiple target feedback resource units. The method can further include transmitting the feedback resource configuration information to the terminal, such that the terminal, when carrying out downlink transmission with the base station, transmits first response information corresponding to a first downlink resource range occupied during the downlink transmission to the base station on the multiple target feedback resource units.

Abstract: Communication techniques (e.g., IP-based communications, multicast communications, unicast communications, wireless communications, etc.) are described. Devices may establish discrete communication sessions, with defined start and end times determined at the network layer of an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, to exchange content.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be scheduled to send uplink data to a base station using a particular transmission length provided by the base station. The UE may send multiple repetitions of the uplink data to the base station using transmissions that have varying lengths. The UE may determine a transmit power based on the length provided by the base station and use that transmit power for transmitting the repetitions, regardless of the actual lengths of the repetitions.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, and methods that improve network communication on a high-latency network by using a low-latency network to manage return-link bandwidth. Embodiments of the systems described herein include a user terminal that is communicatively coupled to a high-latency network and a low-latency network. The user terminal is configured to communicate with a gateway routing device over the low-latency network. The user terminal requests return-link bandwidth and the gateway routing device provides a transmission schedule to the user terminal over the low-latency network. The user terminal can be configured to transmit a message over the high-latency network using the scheduled return-link bandwidth.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a coherence block for each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs being served by the first cell, resulting in a plurality of coherence blocks, responsive to the determining, identifying a smallest coherence block from the plurality of coherence blocks, identifying a pilot sequence length based on the smallest coherence block, determining a plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences based on the identifying the pilot sequence length, designating, from the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, a first group of orthogonal pilot sequences for use in the first cell, and distributing, to each neighboring cell of a plurality of neighboring cells adjacent to the first cell, a respective group of orthogonal pilot sequences from a remainder of the plurality of orthogonal pilot sequences, to prevent pilot contamination between the first cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communications utilizing cross carrier scheduling Methods and apparatus include generating at least one slot in a control channel from a scheduling cell, the at least one slot including a plurality of control channel segments such as PDCCH segments, which are arranged at respective times within the at least one slot. Each of the control channel segments includes control information such as DCIs corresponding to respective slots for a scheduled cell. Distributing the control channel information in segments or spans over time affords improved decoding timing in a UE in the scheduled cell.

Abstract: A method of operating multiple time alignment timers (TimeAlignmentTimer) is provided for facilitating communication between and evolved Node B (eNB) and a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting multiple carriers. The method includes starting a first TAT of a first group including the primary cell, starting a second TAT when Timing Advance (TA) information on a second group not including the primary cell is received; and determining transmission of at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), a physical uplink control channel, and a sounding reference signal according to a start and an expiration of at least one of the first and second TATs.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance network traffic management. In one implementation, a first host identifies a packet to be transferred from a first virtual machine on the first host to a second virtual machine on a second host. In response to identifying the packet, the first host identifies a source logical port for the first virtual machine, and transferring a communication to the second host, wherein the communication encapsulates the data packet and the source logical port. Once the packet is received by the second host, the second host may use the source logical port to determine a forwarding action for the packet.

Abstract: A switch equipped with a self-managing reduction engine is provided. During operation, the reduction engine can use a timeout mechanism to manage itself in different latency-induced or error scenarios. As a result, the network can facilitate an efficient and scalable environment for high performance computing.

Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a first control signal using at least a first one of one or more communication resources via a first communication channel, wherein the first control signal indicates a communication resource of the one or more communication resources that can be used for transmitting data via a second communication channel; and in response to the first control signal indicating that the at least first one of the one or more communication resources can also be used for transmitting data via the second communication channel, transmitting the data using at least part of the at least first one of the one or more communication resources via the second communication channel.

Abstract: A network interface controller (NIC) capable of efficiently utilizing an output buffer is provided. The NIC can be equipped with an output buffer, a host interface, an injector logic block, and an allocation logic block. The output buffer can include a plurality of cells, each of which can be a unit of storage in the output buffer. If the host interface receives a command from a host device, the injector logic block can generate a packet based on the command. The allocation logic block can then determine whether the packet is a multi-cell packet. If the packet is a multi-cell packet, the allocation logic block can determine a virtual index for the packet. The allocation logic block can then store, in an entry in a data structure, the virtual index, and a set of physical indices of cells storing the packet.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for encoding repetitions of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In some aspects, the disclosed methods or techniques include first determining that a first number of REs of a first PUCCH repetition used for UCI transmission is different than a second number of REs of a second PUCCH repetition used for the UCI transmission. Based on the determination, the UE performs one or more actions to provide a same mother polar code length for generating coded bits for each of the first and second PUCCH repetitions. The UE performs polar code encoding of information bits of the UCI for the first PUCCH repetition and the second PUCCH repetition based on the same mother polar code length. The UE transmits the first and the second PUCCH repetitions including the respective polar-encoded UCI.

Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to an energy-aware architecture that supports a low power scheduling mode. For example, a media access control (MAC) architecture for a base station (e.g., an enhanced Node B) and associated access terminals (e.g., UEs) can take the power needs of the access terminals into account when scheduling the access terminals. In some aspects, an access terminal may support a particular frame structure for a low power mode. Accordingly, scheduling of the access terminal may include use of the particular frame structure during low power mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter, which transmits a signal to a base station over a channel, wherein the signal is transmitted based on an initial channel quality information indicating a first channel quality of the channel. A receiver of the UE receives a transmission quality information indicating a second channel quality of the channel used for transmitting the signal. A processing circuitry of the UE estimates a transmission quality based on the initial channel quality information and the transmission quality information, wherein the transmission quality indicates whether the transmission of the signal over the channel was successful or not.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions with repetitions. A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving first information indicating a configuration for directions of symbols and receiving second information indicating whether a repetition of a transmission is counted when the repetition of the transmission is canceled. The method further includes determining that a first repetition of the transmission includes a symbol with downlink direction based on the first information determining a counter number of repetitions based on the second information, and canceling the first repetition of the transmission.

Abstract: Sidelink communication operations may be enhanced through the use of communications requirement signaling, which may include, for example, indications of the type, size, quality of service requirements, pending buffer sizes, and the like, and through the evaluation of such signaled information to determine whether existing grants and logical channels may suffice for new sidelink traffic. Grants may be requested via sidelink scheduling requests and sidelink buffer status reporting, for example, which allow scheduling devices, such as base stations and scheduling user equipment apparatuses, early insight into needs of sidelink traffic for application with divergent QoS requirements.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless node may determine a configuration for interference measurement at the first wireless node, which may indicate a set of uplink resources for uplink reference signals and a beam sweeping configuration. Additionally, or alternatively, the configuration may indicate one or more resource sets configured for interference measurement. In some cases, the first wireless node may determine a set of transmission beams for the uplink reference signals based on the beam sweeping configuration, and the first wireless node may transmit the uplink reference signals via all of the transmission beams supported by the first wireless node.

Abstract: A method for a UE performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process for a deprioritized uplink (UL) grant is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, a first UL grant scheduling a first UL transmission on a first UL resource and a second UL grant scheduling a second UL transmission on a second UL resource, the second UL resource at least partially overlapping the first UL resource in a time domain, determining the first UL grant as a prioritized UL grant, determining the second UL grant as a deprioritized UL grant, performing the first UL transmission scheduled by the prioritized UL grant, receiving a third UL grant scheduling a retransmission on a third UL resource, the retransmission corresponding to the second UL transmission scheduled by the deprioritized UL grant and flushing a HARQ buffer of a HARQ process for the second UL transmission in response to receiving the third UL grant.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to identifying a sidelink priority value of sidelink traffic to be transmitted via a sidelink channel, identifying a type of uplink traffic to be transmitted via an uplink channel, the uplink traffic is scheduled to be transmitted contemporaneously with the sidelink traffic, prioritizing, based at least in part on the identification of the type of uplink traffic being of a first type uplink traffic, the uplink traffic regardless of the sidelink priority value, and transmitting, based on prioritizing the sidelink traffic or prioritizing the uplink traffic, at least one of the sidelink traffic or the uplink traffic.