Abstract: A signal generation method is disclosed, to enhance an anti-interference capability and a coverage area of a signal. The method includes: A first device obtains a first signal based on transmission information through channel encoding, where the transmission information includes information that the first device needs to send to a second device; the first device generates a second signal based on the first signal through repetition or frequency spread transformation; the first device generates a third signal based on the second signal through linear encoding; and the first device generates a target signal based on the third signal through signal modulation, where the target signal is sent to the second device. Associated devices are also described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a full duplex configuration for using one or more downlink ports and one or more uplink ports simultaneously. The UE may transmit, via the one or more downlink ports, a sounding reference signal (SRS) for downlink channel sounding in a downlink band of a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) slot in accordance with the full duplex configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that releases a resource of a secondary cell group in response to deactivation of the secondary cell group, in which the control unit performs a random access procedure to the secondary cell group in response to activation of the secondary cell group.

Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver configured to receive system information including information pertaining to random access procedures from the base station; a controller configured to select the resources to be used for random access based on the information pertaining to the random access procedure and a device type of the terminal acting as a reference terminal; and a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble to the base station using the selected resource, wherein the device type of the reference terminal is a reduced-function terminal type or an enhanced-coverage terminal type.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a UE may receive a format indication of a DCI format that includes one or more changed fields having changed values with respect to a previous DCI and one or more unchanged fields having unchanged values with respect to the previous DCI. The UE may receive DCI having the DCI format. The UE may decode the one or more changed fields and not the one or more unchanged fields. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Systems and methods for modularized design for inter-physical layer priority uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first code rate for a first portion of UCI and a second code rate for a second portion of UCI. Different code rates may be used to encode different portions of UCI (e.g., hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits, channel state information (CSI) reporting bits, scheduling request (SR) bits, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits, etc.). Further, a UE may select a group of bets offset sets based on a physical layer priority type and a UCI multiplexing type.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to managing transmissions across multiple time-domain resources, including receiving, by a User Equipment (UE) from a network, one or more of at least one frequency-domain starting position for a transmission, at least one frequency resource set for the transmission, or at least one frequency hopping configuration set for the transmission. The UE determines a plurality of time-domain resources for repeating the transmission or for multiple transmissions scheduled by a same scheduling command. The UE determines at least one of a frequency-domain starting position, a frequency-domain resource set, or a frequency hopping configuration set for the transmission in each of the plurality of time-domain resources.

Abstract: A paging monitoring method includes a UE obtains target configuration information. The target configuration information includes at least one of the following a correspondence between a power saving signal and a PO, a first cycle, or target resource information, and the target resource information is used to indicate a resource used for the power saving signal; and the UE monitors the power saving signal based on the target configuration information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for multiple transmit-receive points (multi-TRP) transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: receiving first configuration information for uplink phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) and second configuration information indicating a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets, wherein each of the plurality of SRS resource sets is associated with at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition; for each PUSCH repetition, determining a number of PT-RS ports for transmitting the uplink PT-RS; and transmitting two or more PUSCH repetitions. Embodiments of the present disclosure can resolve the issues caused by the imbalance numbers of PT-RS ports between different TRPs.

Abstract: A first network node is configured for use in a wireless communication network. The first network node determines a modified configuration of a reference signal beam of a serving cell of the first network node. The first network node transmits a first indication to a second network node. The first indication comprises a configuration update message that describes the modified configuration of the reference signal beam of the serving cell.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interworking function selection by a remote user equipment (UE) for UE-to-network sidelink relay access. A method that may be performed by a remote user equipment (UE) includes receiving a plurality of interworking function configurations, for accessing a network via a sidelink relay UE, and a plurality of relay service codes. The remote UE determines a service to use for communications in the network. The remote UE selects one of the plurality of interworking function configurations based on the relay service code for the determined service.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for soft combining of polar encoded transmissions. An example method, performed at a network node, generally includes obtaining multiple codeword permutations corresponding to different payloads, wherein the different payloads comprise first payload portions that are the same and second payload portions that differ in a deterministic manner, and each codeword permutation corresponds to one of the second payload portions, processing the multiple codeword permutations to obtain the second payload portions, obtaining the first payload portions after obtaining the second payload portions, and soft combining the first payload portions.

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: 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 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.