Abstract: A method performed by a terminal in a TDD communication system is provided. The method includes identifying that the terminal supports half-DuplexTDD-CA-SameSCS capability, identifying that directionalCollisionHandling is configured as ‘enabled’ for a set of serving cells among multiple serving cells including a first serving cell and a second serving cell, in case that the terminal is not capable of simultaneous reception and transmission on the first and second serving cells, identifying that the terminal is not configured to monitor a PDCCH for DCI format 2_0 on any of the multiple serving cells, identifying a first carrier of the first serving cell not configured for a PUCCH/PUSCH, and in case that a SRS on the first carrier and a physical channel on a second carrier of the second serving cell collide and directionalCollisionHandling is configured as ‘enabled’, applying a priority rule for the SRS transmission and then a procedure for the directional collision handling.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for spatial resource selection from a plurality of spatial resources. The method comprises—for each spatial resource of the plurality of spatial resources—receiving a plurality of reference signal blocks using the spatial resource (wherein at least some of the reference signal blocks are received in different frequency intervals and during different time intervals), determining (for each received reference signal block) whether or not a signal quality metric of the received reference signal block meets a quality criterion, and determining whether the spatial resource is to be considered for spatial resource selection based on the quality criterion determinations of the received reference signal blocks. The spatial resources may be beams of a beam-forming application, or antennas of a multi-antenna arrangement, or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) streams.

Abstract: A method (200) of reconfiguring a telecommunications network (100), the telecommunications network being configured to facilitate telehaptic communication with a User Equipment (UE) (110), the method comprising the steps of: processing a network communication so as to determine a likelihood of future telehaptic communication with the UE (230); determining that said likelihood of future telehaptic communication exceeds a threshold value (240); and in response to said determining, reconfiguring the telecommunications network so as to improve network performance for the UE (250).

Abstract: Provided are a method for SFC support of EDGEAPP and a device for performing the same. A service function chain support method according to an example embodiment includes receiving a service routing configuration request, constructing a service routing path in response to the service routing configuration request, and controlling forwarding of traffic by successively invoking service APIs configuring the service routing path.

Abstract: This specification provides a resource determining method and an apparatus, to optimize sidelink transmission performance. In this specification, a first communication apparatus may receive preferred resource information and/or non-preferred resource information, determine a transmission resource based on received resource information and a type of the first communication apparatus, and perform sidelink transmission by using the transmission resource. First resource information can indicate a high-interference or high-usage resource and/or a low-interference or low-usage resource. The first communication apparatus can select, based on the type of the first communication apparatus, a resource with relatively low interference to perform sidelink transmission. This improves sidelink transmission performance.

Abstract: A method by which a terminal operating in an unlicensed band transmits a signal includes the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information about a carrier; receiving configuration information for configuring N (where N is an integer) guard band(s) for some frequency domains of the carrier; and transmitting a signal to the base station by using a first frequency domain of a bandwidth part belonging to the carrier, wherein the first frequency domain can be a domain excluding the N guard band(s) from the frequency domain of the bandwidth part.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a next generation wireless communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate and the like beyond the 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting same may be provided, and various other embodiments may also be provided.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide an uplink channel transmission method, a terminal, and a base station. When a plurality of uplink channels are overlapped with each other on a time domain, the method applied to the terminal comprises: first processing the plurality of uplink channels according to a channel-multiplexing transmission rule, determining a first target uplink channel to be transmitted, and then determining whether to transmit the first target uplink channel; or first determining, from the plurality of uplink channels, a candidate uplink channel capable of preforming transmission, then processing the candidate uplink channel according to the channel-multiplexing transmission rule, and determining a second target uplink channel to be transmitted. The embodiments of the present application ensure the normal transmission of a system.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive, via a first serving cell, a message including an indication to activate a second serving cell different from the first serving cell. The UE may receive, via the first serving cell, a control message indicating a first resource for transmitting a response message responsive to the message, and triggering a reference signal associated with time and frequency tracking for the second serving cell. The UE may transmit, via the first serving cell and within the first resource indicated via the control message, the response message acknowledging the message. The UE may then monitor a second resource of the second serving cell for the reference signal based on the control message.

Abstract: A method of selectively transmitting a positioning signal from a TRP includes: transmitting, unmuted, a first intra-slot positioning signal resource segment in a first slot of a transmission schedule in accordance with a muting configuration, the transmission schedule indicating which one or more resource elements to sound for transmitting at least a portion of the positioning signal, the muting configuration indicating whether to mute intra-slot positioning signal resource segments; and muting transmission by the TRP of a second intra-slot positioning signal resource segment in the first slot of the transmission schedule in accordance with the muting configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may transmit a list of a plurality of CCs for a transmission of at least one PDCP PDU, the plurality of CCs corresponding to a plurality of indicated CCs. The apparatus may also transmit the at least one PDCP PDU on one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs. Additionally, the apparatus may determine whether to retransmit the at least one PDCP PDU, a retransmission of the at least one PDCP PDU being associated with a PDCP duplication procedure. The apparatus may also select one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs for the retransmission of the at least one PDCP PDU.

Abstract: A radio network node, a wireless device and methods performed therein for handling communication in a wireless communication network are provided. The method performed by the wireless device comprises obtaining an indication indicating which beams to be included in a cell quality derivation of a cell; and performing one or more measurements on one or more beams, which one or more beams are selected based on the obtained indication. Furthermore, a computer program product and a computer readable storage medium are also provided herein.

Abstract: A backscatter transmission scheme is provided in which a carrier signal is transmitted by a carrier communication device discontinuously as carrier signal bursts. The carrier signal, while it is on, is divided into carrier time segments. Each carrier time segment has a specified time. The different carrier time segments represent different times that backscatter devices can make backscatter transmissions. In addition, in some embodiments, a set of frequencies are available for backscatter transmission. The set of frequencies includes the carrier frequency and a set of frequencies with respective frequency shifts relative to the carrier frequency. The combination of a specific carrier time segment, a specific frequency shift, together constitutes a specific backscatter transmission opportunity.

Abstract: A context management method includes: when a distributed unit (DU) of a network side device receives a first message from a centralized unit (CU) of the network side device, the DU of the network side device may store a context of the terminal side device in an inactive state. The first message includes a second message, and the second message is used to indicate the terminal side device to enter the inactive state and release a connection to the network side device.

Abstract: A method for transporting a Multi-Transport Network Context Identifier (MTNC-ID) over a Segment Routing Version 6 (SRV6) enabled data plane for fifth generation (5G) transport. The method includes setting an indicator in a flags field of a SRV6 header of a data packet that an MTNC-ID type-length-value (TLV) is included in a TLV field of the SRV6 header. The MTNC-ID TLV for the MTNC-ID is inserted in the TLV field of the SRV6 header of the data packet. The data packet with the SRV6 header containing the MTNC-ID is transmitted over the SRV6 enabled data plane to a next node along a forwarding path corresponding to the MTNC-ID.

Abstract: Speed and service aware frequency band selection processes for mobility networks are described. In one embodiment, a system can comprising a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations comprise selecting a frequency band for performance of data communication between a communication device (CD) and network equipment of a communication network based on a speed of the CD, and instructing the CD to employ the frequency band for the data communication based on the selecting. In various embodiments, the selecting is responsive to the speed exceeding a threshold speed indicating the CD moving a high speed and the selected frequency band comprises a low frequency band tailored for data communication at the high speed. The frequency band selection can also account for other contextual criteria associated with the CD, including services/applications used, location, and route/trajectory of the device.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data block transmissions. One method includes transmitting a data blocks frequency multiplexed in a time duration to a device, wherein: the data blocks are transmitted based on spatial information and a redundancy version sequence; each data block of the data blocks carries the same data varied based on a redundancy version indicated by the redundancy version sequence and occupies a same number of virtual resource blocks in a frequency domain; the data blocks are scheduled by a control channel, wherein the control channel is used to transmit information that indicates the redundancy version sequence of redundancy version sequences configured by high layer signaling; the spatial information is indicated in the control channel or is configured by high layer signaling; and a total number of data blocks of the data blocks is configured by high layer signaling.

Abstract: A system can configure a first number of demodulation reference signal positions in radio resource control information as part of a connection setup with a base station that is configured to facilitate first broadband cellular communications. The system can, after attaching to the base station, receive a medium access control control element message from the base station indicative of modifying the first number of demodulation reference signal positions to a second number of demodulation reference signal positions. The system can conduct second broadband cellular communications with the base station according to the second number of demodulation reference signal positions, wherein a throughput of the second broadband cellular communications is determined as a function of a size of a transport block set based on the second number of demodulation reference signal positions.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for beam related statistics aided resumed beamformed communication with a terminal device. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The method comprises providing network access to the terminal device by, in a first set of beams, performing beamformed communication with the terminal device until the terminal device leaves radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. The method comprises storing beam related statistics of the beamformed communication. The method comprises providing resumed network access to the terminal device by, in a second set of beams, performing resumed beamformed communication with the terminal device upon the terminal entering RRC connected mode. How to perform the resumed beamformed communication is based on the beam related statistics.

Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting multicast are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast may be configured to support stateless multicasting of packets based on encoding of multicast path information within the packets. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicasting of packets based on encoding of multicast path information within the packets may be configured to use a recursive scheme of encoding the multicast path information within the packets such that the header that arrives at each node of the multicast path informs the node of the outgoing links over which the packet is to be sent and the headers to be sent on the outgoing links (e.g., each node of the multicast tree is able to recognize each of its outgoing links from the received header and send the appropriate subtree encoding down each of its outgoing links).