Abstract: A radio access network node determines a change in condition of traffic directed to a user equipment. The condition change may comprise jitter caused by a core network component or the condition change may comprise lack of traffic to transmit to the user equipment. The node may determine an offset to compensate for the jitter and transmit the offset to the user equipment, to be used by the user equipment to modify previously-scheduled semipersistent scheduling occasions. The node transmits the jitter-altered downlink traffic according to semipersistent scheduling occasions that have been modified by the offset. If no traffic data is present at the node to transmit to the user equipment, the node may transmit an activate/deactivate indication to be used by the user equipment to deactivate monitoring of a previously-scheduled semipersistent scheduling occasion or to activate monitoring of a different occasion resource.

Abstract: A variable buffer status report configuration is transmitted from a wireless communication network node to a user equipment. The configuration may comprise one or more functions to calculate a buffer status report indication that indicates, or to calculate a table that is used to indicate, a metric related to a buffer, or related to uplink traffic stored in a buffer, of the user equipment. The configuration may comprise a function to determine a precision variable that corresponds to a step size between different criteria, or criteria functions, that are used to determine a buffer status report indication. Buffer status report indications may vary in size based on a value of the indication. A user equipment may apply different received configurations, or functions thereof, to determine buffer status report indications based on different parameters, such as traffic type, traffic Quality of Service, buffer size, or amount of buffered uplink traffic.

Abstract: A variable buffer status report configuration is transmitted from a wireless communication network node to a user equipment. The configuration may comprise one or more functions to calculate a buffer status report indication that indicates, or to calculate a table that is used to indicate, a metric related to a buffer, or related to uplink traffic stored in a buffer, of the user equipment. The configuration may comprise a function to determine a precision variable that corresponds to a step size between different criteria, or criteria functions, that are used to determine a buffer status report indication. Buffer status report indications may vary in size based on a value of the indication. A user equipment may apply different received configurations, or functions thereof, to determine buffer status report indications based on different parameters, such as traffic type, traffic Quality of Service, buffer size, or amount of buffered uplink traffic.

Abstract: An information handling system stores multicast broadcast service (MBS) link adaption (LA) configurations. Based on the MBS LA configurations, the system transmits a channel quality indications (CQI) report request. The system receives a CQI report and applies CQI filtering to the received CQI report and a CQI of the information handling system. In response to the CQI filtering being applied, the system provides an LA group filtered CQI report to a radio access network node.

Abstract: An information handling system within a broadcast system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) codebook. The processor receives multicast broadcast service (MBS) HARQ configurations and the HARQ ACK/NACK codebook. The processor receives an MBS payload one of a plurality of available downlink beams, and determines whether a decoding of the payload is successful or failed. In response to the decoding of the payload having failed, the processor provides a HARQ preamble on the one of the available downlink beams. The HARQ preamble identifies that the decoding of the payload has failed on the one of the available downlink beams.

Abstract: A radio access network node generates a physical random access channel configuration and transmits the configuration to a user equipment. The user equipment may use multiple and different uplink resources indicated in the configuration to transmit multiple preamble portions to the radio access network node based on signal strengths corresponding to available downlink beams. The preamble portions may be the same preamble, different preambles assigned in the configuration to a beam ranking index that are to be transmitted in different uplink resources associated with downlink beams ranked by the user equipment according to signal strength, or different parts of a long spread-preamble. The radio access network node may combine the preamble portions to obtain a single preamble or may request a strongest beam indication from the user equipment if a preamble portion was received in a signal corresponding to a less-than-strongest downlink beam available to the user equipment.

Abstract: A radio access network node generates a physical random access channel configuration and transmits the configuration to a user equipment. The user equipment determines whether a signal strength of a downlink beam having a highest signal strength value of available downlink beams satisfies a criterion corresponding to a likelihood of a desired level of performance in transmitting a preamble via an uplink resource. If the signal strength does not satisfy the criterion, the user equipment may use multiple and different uplink resources indicated in the configuration to transmit multiple physical random access channel preamble portions to the radio access network node. The preamble portions may be the same preamble, different preambles assigned in the configuration to a beam ranking index that are to be transmitted in different uplink resources associated with downlink beams ranked by the user equipment according to signal strength, or different parts of a long spread-preamble.

Abstract: A sidelink user equipment with traffic to transmit towards a destination user equipment determines a plan of multiple paths for delivering the traffic. Each path may comprise multiple user equipment and may carry different portions of the traffic or a duplicate of traffic that another path is carrying. A traffic delivery plan may be based on resource availability information received from the user equipment of the paths in response to a request for the resource availability information. A traffic delivery plan may comprise a ratio of splitting the traffic among the paths. A traffic delivery plan may be adapted to changing conditions, such as congestion, experienced by a user equipment of a path. Indication of a changed condition may be provided according to a configured periodicity or based on a configured criterion being met.

Abstract: A victim RAN node subject to cross-link interference (“CLI”) from a neighboring aggressor RAN node requests a CLI measurement procedure with the aggressor. The CLI measurement request may include indication of time-unit and frequency resources, and uplink and downlink beam combinations, corresponding to the victim and aggressor, respectively, to be used during the measuring procedure. Upon acknowledgement by the aggressor to participate in measuring CLI according to resource information indicated in the request, the victim may mute ongoing receiving or transmitting of signals using the time, frequency, and beam-combination resources indicated in the request and measure CLI received from the aggressor during the time, at the frequencies, and via the beam-combinations indicated in the request. The victim RAN may compile a CLI measurement report and transmit the report to the aggressor. The request, acknowledgement, and report may be transmitted via backhaul links.

Abstract: A set of full duplex sub-band patterns, which each define downlink or uplink full duplex frequency sub-band resources during a TDD radio timing unit, are configured to RANs that are neighbors to one another. A RAN determines a traffic load, selects a full duplex sub-band pattern to accommodate the traffic load, and transmits an index associated with the selected pattern to neighboring RANs over a backhaul link. Selecting the pattern may be based on potential CLI. A neighboring RAN may adopt the selected pattern for downlink transmission. A RAN may select a compression subspace plan from among configured subspace plans and transmit, via a backhaul link, an index associated with the compression plan to neighboring RANs for use thereby in performing downlink transmission to minimize CLI. A RAN may transmit, via a backhaul link, an index associated with configured aggressor RAN action based on an uplink traffic or channel type.

Abstract: A user equipment requests from a RAN node skipping of paging occasions that the RAN node otherwise may schedule for UEs uniformly throughout the area that the RAN serves. The RAN assigns the UE to a device-type classification based on battery parameters or service type of the UE. The RAN modifies scheduling of paging occasions to the UE, and others in a class that comprises the UE, based on the device-classification. The UE may submit to the RAN defined types of traffic, paging occasions for which the UE should not skip. The RAN may transmit in a paging skipping preemption search space an indication for the UE not to skip an upcoming configured paging occasion configured for skipping. The RAN may configure the UE with a paging pattern to use when UE conditions change, such as when an idle UE moves into range of another RAN.

Abstract: A resource may be monitored and decoded by sidelink user equipment device, according to a configuration, to receive a portion of a sidelink traffic flow without the resource being scheduled via a control channel. The configured resource may be semi-static insofar as it may occur grant-free instead of being scheduled, but the configuration for using the semi-static resource, as well as the resource itself, may change as changes occur to members of a sidelink group of which the user equipment is a member. A sidelink search space may be used to indicate, with an SCI, traffic destined to a member in the configured grant-free resource.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising using a machine learning algorithm to select an antenna panel from a plurality of antenna panels. A first long-term reward value associated with the selected antenna panel is determined based at least partly on one or more first signals received on the selected antenna panel. A second signal is then transmitted or received via the selected antenna panel, if the first long-term reward value exceeds one or more second long-term reward values associated with at least a subset of the plurality of antenna panels.

Abstract: Sidelink relay and remote sidelink devices of a sidelink group negotiate a distributed sidelink control channel sensing arrangement such that one sidelink device monitors control channel sensing occasions during a configured sensing period corresponding to the monitoring sielink device while other members of the group sleep their respective control channel sensing circuitry. More than one member of the group may be awake during a configured channel sensing reporting occasion that is used to communicate available channel resource reports among group members. A report may be unicast, multicast, or broadcast, and may be transmitted in a SCI. Group members may be configured to transmit or receive an interruption request that requests by a non-sensing member a partial available channel resource report from a group member that is currently sensing. The partial report may be transmitted before the configured reporting occasion.

Abstract: A UE is configured to monitor a first control channel search space and information retrieved therefrom is used to not only decode data traffic having a first characteristic but to decode a second search space. Information retrieved from the second search space is used to decode data traffic having a second characteristic that is different from the first characteristic. The different characteristics may be different QoS levels and/or flow/service priority levels. The UE may be configured to decode the first downlink control channel search space according to a device-specific scrambling code specific to the UE or according to a service-type-specific scrambling code. The UE may monitor and decode a wake-up indication control channel search space to determine whether to wake up and monitor the first control channel search space.

Abstract: A control channel search space granted by a RAN node to a first UE processing packets of a latency-tolerant traffic flow is configured as a preemption candidate search space. A second UE processing a less-latency-tolerant traffic flow may be granted the preemption candidate to facilitate delivery of control information. The RAN may configure the UEs with a preemption search space that may provide preemption configuration or preemption notification information that facilitates the second UE searching the preemption candidate and may notify the first UE that the preemption candidate previously granted thereto has been granted to the second UE. The first UE may sleep during a configured preemption validity period or until a next DRX cycle search opportunity. The RAN may dynamically configure the first UE with a complementary search space when the RAN determines that the second UE needs to use the preemption candidate search space.

Abstract: A user equipment requests from a RAN node skipping of paging occasions that the RAN node otherwise may schedule for UEs uniformly throughout the area that the RAN serves. The RAN assigns the UE to a device-type classification based on battery parameters or service type of the UE. The RAN modifies scheduling of paging occasions to the UE, and others in a class that comprises the UE, based on the device-classification. The UE may submit to the RAN defined types of traffic, paging occasions for which the UE should not skip. The RAN may transmit in a paging skipping preemption search space an indication for the UE not to skip an upcoming configured paging occasion configured for skipping. The RAN may configure the UE with a paging pattern to use when UE conditions change, such as when an idle UE moves into range of another RAN.

Abstract: A RAN configures user equipment members of a sidelink group with mapping of a criterion to various quality of service violation levels associated with a data traffic flow. A violation level indicates how close a member is to violating a quality-of-service limit such as a latency limit. Members analyze a parameter measurement such as latency relative to the criterion, determine respective violation levels, and share, in an SCI, the respective violation levels with each other. A member having a higher violation level than another may preempt resources currently granted to the other. The preempting device may transmit an indication of the resource preemption. Sharing of the respective violation levels may occur during a configured sidelink-group-common DRX active period that is different from a device-specific DRX active period. A sidelink search space may be used to indicate, with an SCI, traffic destined to a member in a configured grant-free resource.

Abstract: Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed that may be implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and/or a wireless access point associated with the WTRU. In one representative method, the WTRU may be in an inactive mode or an idle mode prior to a paging occasion (PO). The WTRU may be configured to detect transmission of a number of synchronization signal blocks or reference signals associated with early paging indication (EPI) downlink control information (DCI). Based on the detected transmissions, the WTRU may perform a blind decoding on transmitted EPI DCI or sequence set to determine whether the WTRU is being paged at the PO or not. The blind decoding may use a pattern which relates the detected synchronization signal blocks or reference signals to a number of transmissions of the EPI DCI associated with the PO. Paging of the WTRU may be used to determine a light/deep sleep state of the WTRU.

Abstract: According to one example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one buffer status report configuration from a network entity. The method may further include measuring, by the user equipment, at least one uplink packet arrival time according to the received at least one buffer status report configuration. The method may further include selecting, by the user equipment, at least one buffer status report format. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, at least one uplink time-stamped buffer status report to the network entity according to the selected at least one buffer status report format.