Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced frame exchange. A device may generate a first subset of a plurality of fields, wherein the first subset is mandatory in a probe request frame. The device may generate a second subset of the plurality of fields, wherein the second subset is optional in the probe request frame regardless of capability information of the device. The device may generate the probe request frame comprising the first subset and the second subset. The device may cause to send the probe request frame to an access point (AP) device.

Abstract: Various embodiments generally may relate to Load Balancing Optimization (LBO) and Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO). Some embodiments of this disclosure are directed to the following 5G SON solutions: use cases and requirements for the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO; procedures for the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO; and management services and information needed to support the management of distributed LBO and centralized LBO.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and indicating a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition factor. The UE may transmit, and the base station may receive, a PUCCH that includes hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement feedback associated with the PDSCH. In some aspects, one or more instances of the PUCCH are transmitted across one or more uplink slots or sub-slots based at least in part on the PUCCH repetition factor indicated in the DCI. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a forwarding node may receive, from a first wireless communication device and during a receipt occasion, an unscheduled communication for forwarding to a second wireless communication device or a control node. The forwarding node may transmit, to the second wireless communication device or the control node and based at least in part on receiving the unscheduled communication during the receipt occasion, an indication of receipt of the unscheduled communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device including a communication circuit, a memory and a microprocessor coupled to the memory and the communication circuit. The communication circuit includes a radio frequency circuit and a first communication branch and a second communication branch sharing a frequency band and coupled to the radio frequency circuit. The memory is configured to store a network environment parameter index. The microprocessor is configured to detect a current state of a wireless network in real time based on the network environment parameter index to obtain current wireless network status data; obtain a time division multiplexing parameter according to an optimization goal and the current wireless network status data; and control the first communication branch and the second communication branch by using time division multiplexing according to the time division multiplexing parameter. Thus, spectrum and radio frequency resources can be optimally used.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may communicate in an unlicensed spectrum (e.g., a shared radio frequency spectrum band). As such, the UE may determine a codebook size for transmitting hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback with respect to the unlicensed spectrum. Accordingly, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number of HARQ processes with which the UE has been configured. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number and/or duration of downlink channel monitoring occasions indicated by the base station. In some cases, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a combination of the techniques described herein.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may start a timer after a repetition of a communication, where calculation of a length of the timer includes an offset that corresponds to a propagation delay between the UE and a base station via a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity. The UE may start a discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer after expiration of the timer. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control channel signal for use in a mobile communication system providing at least two different scheduling modes. Further the invention relates to a scheduling unit for generating the control channel signal and a base station comprising the scheduling unit. The invention also relates to the operation of a mobile station and a base station for implementing a scheduling mode using the control channel signal. In order to facilitate the use of different scheduling schemes for user data transmission while avoiding an additional flag for indicating the scheduling mode in the control signaling, the invention proposes the use of code points in existing control channel signal fields. Further, the invention proposes a specific scheduling mode for use in combination with the proposed control channel signal. According to this scheduling mode control channel information is only provided for retransmissions, while initial transmissions are decoded using blind detection.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method by which a network data analytics function (NWDAF) transmits and receives a signal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps in which an NWDAF receives, from operations and maintenance (OAM), a notification based on a change in a user plane congestion status and transmits, to a V2X application server, analytics for the user plane congestion notification on the basis of the notification through a network exposure function (NEF), wherein the change in the user plane congestion status is determined on the basis of one or more pieces of information including whether a QNC notification is transmitted, and whether the QNC notification is transmitted is determined on the basis of a counter value that increases when an NG-RAN transmits, to an SMF, “GFBR cannot be fulfilled/guaranteed,” and decreases when the NG-RAN transmits, to the SMF, “GFBR cannot be fulfilled/guaranteed.

Abstract: To more efficient sidelink communications, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a first wireless device operating includes transmitting a sidelink discovery probing message comprising at least a first identifier of the first sidelink device. The example method further includes monitoring for a probing response from a second sidelink device. The example method further includes transmitting a sidelink discovery message if the first sidelink device receives the probing response from the second sidelink device. The example method further includes skipping transmitting the sidelink discovery message if the first sidelink device does not receive the probing response from the second sidelink device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically disabling beamforming for particular user devices. At a node that utilizes carrier aggregation, a node, such as an eNodeB or a gNodeB, communicates with a user device that is located at a cell edge, the communicating comprising transmitting data on at least two channels that utilize beamforming. Performance of the user device is determined to be below a predetermined threshold. When this occurs, beamforming capabilities are disabled for at least one of the at least two channels used to communicate with the user device.

Abstract: Methods include performing, by a terminal device, downlink control channel monitoring according to a first time pattern. The methods include determining that data has been transmitted on downlink on a number of symbols and based on the determination that the data is transmitted, suspending the performing of downlink control channel monitoring according to the first time pattern. The methods also include performing downlink control channel monitoring on at least one symbol after transmission of the data.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more channel occupancy times (COTs) associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) on an unlicensed band. The UE may calculate a congestion control parameter associated with a second RAT on the unlicensed band, wherein the congestion control parameter is calculated by excluding sub-channels in the one or more COTs. The UE may use the congestion control parameter to communicate via the unlicensed band. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods, apparatus and machine-readable mediums relating to buffer status reporting in wireless communication systems. One aspect provides a method performed by a user equipment. The user equipment is configurable to communicate with a radio access node via a plurality of communication protocols, and to communicate with a network node via at least one congestion-controlled application transport protocol. The method comprises: generating a buffer status report comprising an indication of a first amount of data available for transmission from the user equipment, the first amount of data including at least data stored in a buffer for data conforming to the congestion-controlled application transport protocol; and transmitting the buffer status report to the radio access node.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a segment parser to parse scrambled data bits of a PPDU into a first plurality of data bits and a second plurality of data bits, the PPDU to be transmitted in an OFDM transmission over an aggregated bandwidth comprising a first channel in a first frequency band and a second channel in a second frequency band; a first baseband processing block to encode and modulate the first plurality of data bits according to a first OFDM MCS for transmission over the first channel in the first frequency band; and a second baseband block to encode and modulate the second plurality of data bits according to a second OFDM MCS for transmission over the second channel in the second frequency band.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A first base station may receive, from a second base station, parameters for a cell of the second base station. A handover to a selected uplink, of a plurality of uplinks of the cell, may be performed based on a threshold value associated with uplink selection among the plurality of uplinks and a measurement associated with a signal of the cell.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus circuitry, and storage media are described for mobile-terminated packet transmissions. In one embodiment, an apparatus of a control plane device configured to operate within an evolved packet network core identifies a first service flow event trigger associated with a first packet data unit (PDU) session and processes a path reselection for a first PDU session in response to the first service flow event trigger, wherein the path reselection determines a new gateway for the first PDU session resulting from the path reselection. Transmission of a change notification to an application server controller associated with the first PDU session is initiated in response to the path reselection. Transmission of a routing update to the new gateway in response to the path reselection is also initiated. In various embodiments, the trigger may be a mobility event, a load balancing event, or operations in association with an application server controller.

Abstract: A method for data transmission and related products are provided. The method includes the following. A first application data packet of a first application is obtained during running the first application. The first application data packet is tagged according to first user identification (UID) of the first application, and a first data packet tag of the first application data packet is obtained. A target PLR of data transmitted by the Wi-Fi module is obtained in response to that the first data packet tag is identified by the Wi-Fi module. When the target PLR is greater than a first threshold, first maximum number of retransmissions of the first application data packet is increased to first target number of retransmissions according to the target PLR. The first application data packet is transmitted according to the first target number of retransmissions.

Abstract: A method performed by a WTRU may comprise associating a logical channel with a plurality of token buckets, including at least a long term token bucket and a short term token bucket. The method may further comprise transmitting logical channel data on the associated logical channel, in a TTI. The transmitted logical channel data of the TTI may be no larger than a value corresponding to a minimum of the long term token bucket and the short term token bucket. The long term token bucket may be initialized to a value which is greater than an initialized value of the short term token bucket. When the WTRU transmits logical channel data in a TTI, the WTRU may decrement the long term token bucket and the short term token bucket by a total size of one or more MAC SDUs served on the associated logical channel.

Abstract: A user equipment implements a method of processing indication messages, such as SCRI (signalling connection release indication) messages. The user equipment (UE) maintains a count of how many indication messages with a cause set have been sent by the UE while in at least one radio resource control (RRC) state. Various conditions are provided for resetting the count. These include receiving packet switched (PS) data by the UE and transmitting packet switched (PS) data.