Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to expansion or compression of data of a transport block. A transmitter may comprise: means for receiving data for transmission in a transport block; means for determining, by an expander neural network, an expanded representation for the data of the transport block to cause the data of the transport block to have a designated size, wherein the expander neural network is an encoder of a reverse autoencoder neural network; and means for transmitting the expanded representation of the data in the transport block.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a terminal device configured to perform the following. Initially, the terminal device monitors physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, transmissions according to a first set of rules. The first set of rules comprises rules for performing monitoring over at least two beam pair links, each beam pair link corresponding to a control resource set, CORESET, with a different active transmission configuration indication, TCI, state. The terminal device receives, using a first CORESET with a first active TCI state from an access node, an indication for limiting monitoring and consequently limits monitoring of PDCCH transmissions associated with CORESETs having a TCI state other than the first active TCI state for a period of time.

Abstract: At least one embodiment includes at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to perform receiving downlink control information common to a plurality of apparatuses, wherein the downlink control information includes beam format information relating to an access node, and using the received beam format information to adapt transmission to the access node or reception from the access node on at least one channel.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to, apparatuses methods and computer readable medium for Message 3 enhancement. In a method, a first apparatus transmits, to a second apparatus, a random access request in at least one of a non-subband non-overlapping full duplex (non-SBFD) resource or a subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) resource. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, information indicating a part of at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource, wherein the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource is to be used for an additional Message 3 transmission. The first apparatus performs the additional Message 3 transmission to the second apparatus in the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium of configuration of sub-band non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) with antenna switching. In a method, a first apparatus determines information related to antenna switching by a second apparatus within a subset of SBFD patterns of a set of SBFD patterns.

Abstract: At least one embodiment includes at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to perform receiving downlink control information common to a plurality of apparatuses, wherein the downlink control information includes beam format information relating to an access node, and using the received beam format information to adapt transmission to the access node or reception from the access node on at least one channel.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for a signaling procedure. An example method may include transmitting a first portion of a signaling message in a first sub-band and transmitting a second portion of the signaling message in a second sub-band, the second portion including an indication to the first portion transmitted in the first sub-band. Related apparatuses and computer readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method may include transmitting a request groupcast message to a plurality of user equipment for their respective preferred or non-preferred resources. The method may also include receiving an information message including the preferred or the non-preferred resources from each user equipment of the plurality of user equipment in response to the request groupcast message. The method may further include identifying, based on the information message, at least one resource from the preferred or non-preferred resources for selection by the plurality of user equipment. In addition, the method may include notifying, via information tethering, to each user equipment of the plurality of user equipment, the identified at least one resource that corresponds to the apparatus and to each user equipment of the plurality of user equipment.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: storing, at a user equipment, information about a sequence of uplink grants for the user equipment to make uplink transmissions via one or more radio channels of a plurality of unlicensed radio channels; and in response to data becoming transmission-ready at the user equipment with one or more intervening uplink grants before the earliest opportunity to attempt to transmit the data via a first unlicensed radio channel currently activated at the user equipment, activating a second unlicensed radio channel, and attempting to transmit the data via the second unlicensed radio channel at an uplink grant of the one or more intervening uplink grants.

Abstract: A transmitter is configured to set a counter to a starting value, sense whether a channel is busy or idle and to update the counter value during sensing. When there is data to be transmitted, the transmitter is configured to determine, based on at least the counter value at a transmit opportunity and a duration the channel has been sensed idle before the transmit opportunity, whether to transmit the data or to continue the sensing the channel to a next transmit opportunity without resetting the counter value to the starting value.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, a method, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium for bandwidth part (BWP) switching. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, whether continuous Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) failures occur on a first bandwidth part (BWP), the terminal device operating on the first BWP. The method further comprises in response to the continuous LBT failures occurring on the first BWP, switching to a second BWP different from the first BWP. Instead of triggering a re-establishment procedure once continuous LBT failures are detected, switching to another BWP on different LBT sub-channels can be much more efficient than going through the whole re-establishment and reconfiguration procedures.

Abstract: A method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam alignment reference value and a beam alignment test value; and determining, by the user equipment, based on the beam alignment reference value and the beam alignment test value, that a user equipment receive beam used by the user equipment is not aligned with a transmit beam of the base station.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for configuring signal measurements to be performed for a wireless communication channel. More specifically, a network node generates a first timing configuration for the wireless communication channel and sends it to a UE. The first timing configuration defines a sequence of Fixed Frame Periods (FFPs). Then, the network node generates a second timing configuration for the wireless communication channel and sends it to the UE. The second timing configuration comprises an indication for the UE to perform the signal measurements (e.g., RSSI measurements) within at least part of an idle period of at least one FFP of the sequence of FFPs. By so doing, it is possible (by using a limited signaling overhead) to ensure that the signal measurements will be always performed within the idle period(s) of the FFP(s). In some embodiments, the indication may cause the UE to perform the signal measurements within the at least part of every N-th FFP (e.g.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to bit reduction in resource information. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the number of bits to indicate the resource allocation is reduced and the network device generate the control information based on an offset associated with the bit reduction. In this way, multiple transmission opportunities for the transmission of Msg3 of the random access procedure are provided without increasing the signaling overhead.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handling measurement gaps for frame based equipment (FBE) operation are provided. One method may include receiving at a user equipment, from a serving cell, assistance information that includes at least one of a fixed frame period (FFP) configuration of the serving cell, a reference signal timing configuration for at least one neighbor cell and system frame number (SFN) and frame timing difference reporting information for the at least one neighbor cell. The method may also include determining whether there is transmission from the serving cell during a period of time and, in accordance with a determination that there is no transmission from the serving cell during the period of time, based at least on the assistance information, performing measurement of the at least one neighbor cell during the period of time.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method including, receiving, from a wireless terminal, a second connection request message with an uplink reference signal sequence and in response to receiving the second connection request message, transmitting a contention resolution message to the wireless terminal, the contention resolution message including a temporary identifier associated with the wireless terminal and an identifier of the uplink reference signal sequence.

Abstract: In accordance with some example embodiments, an apparatus may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to transmit at least one parameter configuration of a random access channel procedure to a user equipment; receive at least one physical uplink shared channel part of a first random access channel message using at least one transmitter beam configuration; upon detection of at least one preamble part of the first random access channel message, decode the physical uplink shared channel part of the first random access channel message and perform at least one channel quality measurement on at least one demodulation reference signal sequence transmitted on a number of selected transmitter beam configurations.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to wideband communications based on availability assessment. A method for communication comprises performing availability assessment on a set of configured frequency subbands to obtain an availability result, the availability result indicating that at least one of the set of configured frequency subbands is available for a period of time for transmission of intended information and transmitting supplementary information that has been prepared using the at least one frequency subband during a first portion of time within the period of time. The method also comprises preparing the intended information based on the availability result and transmitting the prepared intended information using the at least one frequency subband during a second portion of time following the first portion of time within the period of time. As such, the processing of the intended information can be adapted depending on the dynamic available subband(s) indicated by the availability result.

Abstract: There are provided measures for handling of paging messages in communication endpoint to network relaying scenarios.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform receiving, by a network device, information comprising a multiple transmission time interval uplink grant with cyclic redundancy check bits scrambled by a radio network temporary identifier; determining, by the network device of a communication network, a subset of data transmissions of a previous burst of data transmissions to be retransmitted by the network device; and performing by the network device retransmission of the subset of data transmissions using scheduled resources of the uplink grant.