Abstract: Aspects provide mechanisms for predicting a change in a beam direction of a transmit and/or receive beam used for communication between a user equipment (UE) and a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity and to adjust the beam direction of the beam on the UE in accordance with the predicted beam direction change. In some examples, the UE may predict the beam direction change based on one or more mobility parameters indicating a predicted change in the relative position of the UE with respect to the NTN entity. In other examples, a network entity, such as the NTN entity, a core network entity or data network entity, may predict the beam change direction based on the one or more mobility parameters.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method between multi-link devices and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to reduce power consumption of a station multi-link device. The method includes: a multi-link device includes a plurality of STAs, one STA operates on one of a plurality of links, and the STA determines a primary link in the plurality of links. A STA operating on the primary link in the multi-link device may receive information sent by the AP indicating whether the STA operating on the primary link has a downlink traffic, and/or information indicating whether a STA operating on a link other than the primary link has a downlink traffic. Therefore, the STA operating on the primary link may determine a link on which the STA having a downlink traffic operates in the multi-link device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for requesting wireless resources for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. In some implementations, a wireless communication device transmits a frame over a wireless medium to an access point (AP), the frame including a medium access control (MAC) header carrying a request for the AP to allocate part of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for P2P communications between the wireless communication device and a client device. The wireless communication device receives a trigger frame allocating a portion of the TXOP for the P2P communications, and transmits or receives P2P data to or from the client device over the wireless medium during the allocated portion of the TXOP. In some instances, the MAC header of the frame includes a Quality-of-Service (QoS) Control field carrying the request. In some other instances, the MAC header of the frame includes an Aggregated-Control (A-Control) subfield carrying the request.

Abstract: A terminal device receives discontinuous reception DRX configuration information from a network device, where the DRX configuration information includes at least configuration information of a first DRX, and the configuration information of the first DRX includes a cycle length of the first DRX; and determines, based on the DRX configuration information, to receive a downlink signal within at least first onDuration and second onDuration, where the second onDuration is next onDuration of the first onDuration, and a time interval between a start location of the first onDuration and a start location of the second onDuration is greater than the cycle length of the first DRX.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for random access in a WLAN. The method carried out by an access point (AP) comprises: setting, by the AP, a User Info field in a Trigger frame to allocate one or more resource units (RUs) or multiple resource units (MRUs) in a trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access based random access (UORA) for associated stations (STAs) or unassociated STAs, wherein an association identifier (AID)12 subfield of the User Info field is set to a first value if the one or more RUs or MRUs are allocated for UORA for the associated STAs, or a second value different from the first value if the one or more RUs or MRUs are allocated for UORA for the unassociated STAs, and sending, by the AP, the Trigger frame to the associated STAs and/or the unassociated STAs.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of one or more sets of contiguous time domain resources for a multi-slot transmission occasion. The UE may select, for a communication on the multi-slot transmission occasion, coded bits of a plurality of coded bits on one of the per slot basis or the per segment basis, for each of a plurality of segments, each segment including one of the one or more sets of contiguous time domain resources and spanning across at least two slots. The UE may interleave the coded bits on one of the per slot basis or the per segment basis to form one or more interleaved encoded bit sequences of a codeblock. The UE may transmit the communication including the one or more interleaved encoded bit sequences. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A base station (BS) is configured to receive a communication indicating a location of a first UE, wherein the first UE is in proximity to a second UE. The BS is further configured to receive a resource request from the first UE for scheduling information to the second UE. A base station (BS) is configured to transmit, based on the first UE and the second UE being in proximity, the scheduling information to the first UE indicating first frequency resources for the first UE to transmit first uplink data to the second UE in a time slot, and indicating second frequency resources that at least partially overlap with the first frequency resources in the time slot.

Abstract: Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. A terminal device sends first information for determining a timing offset value to a network device, where the first information is a first parameter with a first time-domain granularity, and/or the first information is a second parameter with the first time-domain granularity, the first time-domain granularity being a time-domain granularity associated with a subcarrier, the first parameter being used for representing a delay of a service link estimated by the terminal device, and the second parameter being used for representing a Timing Advance (TA).

Abstract: A control plane function receives subscription information indicating that a wireless device subscribes to a service. The control plane function receives, from an authorization server, an authorization for the service of the wireless device. The control plane function sends, to a base station, one or more messages indicating an activation of one or more radio access network functions related to the service of the wireless device, based on the subscription information indicating that the wireless device subscribes to the service and the service being authorized.

Abstract: A capability calling method, a capability calling device, a network node and a storage medium are provided. The capability calling method includes classifying, by a first network node, a capability classification corresponding to a first capability on each of at least two second network nodes in accordance with at least one parameter.

Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for signal transmission. A wireless communication device may receive downlink control information (DCI) from the wireless communication node. The DCI may comprise a plurality of blocks, each one or more blocks of the plurality of blocks for a respective wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may receive the DCI to trigger an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS). The wireless communication device may receive a configuration from the wireless communication node via higher layer signaling. The wireless communication device may receive the configuration to configure parameter srs-TPC-PDCCH-Group as typeA, typeB, typeC or typeD.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method performed by a receiving node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method may include receiving data including a plurality of information bits from a transmitting node, sequentially decoding information bits from a first information bit to a designated information bit among the received plurality of information bits by using a first scheme, and decoding information bits from a second information bit following the designated information bit among the plurality of information bits by using a second scheme that is different from the first scheme.

Abstract: A Method and Apparatus for discontinuous reception and discontinuous transmission are provided. The method includes transmitting a UECapabilityInformation to the GNB, receiving a RRCReconfiguration form the GNB, performing a first DRX operation for a first cell and a third DRX operation for a second cell based on the RRCReconfiguration and current-drx2-ConfigId, receiving a first MAC CE from the GNB and performing DRX operation based on the first MAC CE. The performing DRX operation comprises receiving or not receiving downlink reference signal.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for configuring 8 transmit antenna uplink operation in a wireless communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a wireless link. The wireless device may perform sounding reference signal transmissions on each of 8 sounding reference signal resources, where each resource is associated with a transmit antenna port. The wireless device may receive an indication from the cellular base station of an 8 transmit antenna port uplink configuration to use, which may include a sounding reference signal resource indicator. The wireless device may perform uplink communication with the cellular base station using the 8 transmit antenna port configuration.

Abstract: method and apparatus for paging is provided. Method of base station for paging includes transmitting SystemInformationBlock1, receiving a paging message from the second base station or AMF, determining the index of the Paging-Occasion based at least in part on the information included in the paging message and transmitting an RRC paging message through a paging channel to the paging-occasion determined based on the index of the paging-occasion and the PF.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method for supporting multiple measurement gaps in a wireless network by a radio access network node (RAN node) is provided. The method includes creating a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising one of a RRC Reconfiguration or a RRC Resume with additional Information Elements (IEs) for configuration of the multiple measurement gaps, transmitting the RRC message with the additional IEs in the gap configuration of each of the measurement gap to a user equipment (UE) in the wireless network for configuration of the multiple measurement gaps. Further, the method includes receiving an RRC message comprising of one of an RRC Reconfiguration Complete or an RRC Resume Complete indicating successful application of the received measurement gap configuration from the UE.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for configuration a period for SSB measurement. The method includes: detecting an SSB of a neighboring cell within the period for SSB measurement, in which the period for SSB measurement includes: an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window and/or a measurement gap; and reporting update indication information based on a detection result of the SSB, in which the update indication information is configured to update a period configuration at a network side, and the period configuration includes indication information for determining the period for SSB measurement.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmission method of an uplink control channel, a corresponding user equipment, a base station and a computer-readable medium. The transmission method of the uplink control channel comprising: obtaining configuration information related to a nominal repetition; determining resource locations of one or more actual repetitions according to the configuration information related to the nominal repetition; and transmitting information according to the resource locations.

Abstract: Facilitating cell and carrier switch off for energy awareness in advanced communication networks is provided herein. A method includes determining a first result of a utility function associated with a first configuration of a set of carriers that service a group of user equipment in a communication network. The first configuration is based on respective activation states of carriers of the set of carriers. The method also includes, based on respective traffic patterns of user equipment of the group of user equipment, evaluating respective results of the utility function for respective configurations of a group of configurations, other than the first configuration, for the set of carriers. Further, the method includes selecting a second configuration from the group of configurations based on a second result of the utility function for the second configuration being determined to be a higher value than a value of the first result.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. To do so, a method and apparatus are provided for transmitting groupcast/broadcast/multicast data and control information in the downlink and uplink. The method and apparatus include features for transmitting to a user equipment (UE), configuration information for multicast and broadcast services (MBS), encoding a first bit sequence for the MBS based on a channel coding, identifying a transport block size (TBS) for limited buffer rate matching (LBRM) based on the configuration information, performing the LBRM to the encoded first bit sequence based on the identified TBS, and transmitting to the UE, a second bit sequence identified based on the LBRM.