Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to collision handling. A device may receive configuration for positioning sounding reference signal (SRS) with transmit (TX) frequency hopping for a positioning SRS transmission, including a switching time for an active bandwidth part (BWP). The device may determine, during a collision between the SRS and another uplink transmission, including the switching time to and from the active bandwidth part, whether to drop one or more SRS symbols. The device may transmit remaining non-colliding symbols of the positioning SRS transmission.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein describe uplink (UL) multiplexing of transmissions with different reliability and/or latency requirements. In particular, how one or more indications of impacted resources may be conveyed to one or more user equipments so that an ongoing or imminent UL transmission may be adjusted in order to avoid adversely impacting other UL transmission that may occur in shared resources. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Provided herein are mechanisms on response of pre-allocated resource based PUSCH transmission. The disclosure provides an apparatus including processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to: encode data, for transmission to an access node (AN) over a pre-allocated uplink (UL) resource (PUR) based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); start a timer once the data is transmitted; and monitor, based on the timer, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to obtain a response of the AN to the transmission of the data. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to process, based on signaling received from a base station, a physical resource block (PRB) indexing for a system bandwidth (BW) of a new radio (NR) carrier, wherein the PRB indexing is common to a first plurality of user equipments (UEs), determine a bandwidth part to which the PRB indexing applies based on a common reference point of the system bandwidth an monitor a common search space (CSS) of a core resource set (CORESET) based on the PRB indexing.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multiplexing uplink transmissions. A user equipment (UE) device may detect a first set of beta offset indices associated with multiplexing high priority uplink control information (UCI) into a physical uplink shared control channel (PUSCH); detect a second set of beta offset indices associated multiplexing low priority UCI into the PUSCH; detect downlink control information (DCI) using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) which schedules the PUSCH; determine, based on the first set of beta offset indices and the second set of beta offset indices, that UE device is to multiplex the high priority UCI with the low priority UCI into the PUSCH; and encode, based on the second set of beta offset indices, a multiplexed uplink transmission for transmission to the 5G network device using the PUSCH, the multiplexed uplink transmission comprising the high priority UCI and the low priority UCI.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for multicast and broadcast services (MBS) for a wireless network including transmitting to a user equipment (UE) a signaling configuration for reception by the UE of multicast and broadcast services (MBS) in a low quality of service (QOS) multicast or broadcast delivery using an multicast control channel (MCCH) carried over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by a downlink control information (DCI) holding a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled with a dedicated radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) identifying the low QoS or broadcast reception capability of the UE. The method includes monitoring by the UE a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) cell specific search space (CSS) configured for MBS for the DCI scheduling, the PDSCH carrying the MCCH in the DCI.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition for half duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) wireless operations. A user equipment (UE) device may detect a use of HD-FDD operations; identify an available time slot during which to transmit a PUSCH repetition for the HD-FDD operations; and encode the PUSCH repetition to be transmitted during the available time slot.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the gNB carrying a rule for Uplink (UL) collisions and process a first Downlink (DL) transmission and a second DL transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to identify a first UL transmission for the first DL transmission and a second UL transmission for the second DL transmission, the first UL transmission overlapping with the second UL transmission in at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. The third circuitry may be operable to generate at least one of the first UL transmission and the second UL transmission in accordance with the rule for UL collisions.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein are directed to priority-based transmissions and cancellation indications in semi-static channel access mode. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques related to CWI for a wideband and one or more sub-bands of the wideband. In embodiments, a user equipment (UE) transmit a wideband channel quality index (CQI) report related to the channel state information (CSI) of the wideband. The UE may further identify, from the set of 2, 3, 4, and 5, a number of bits to use for a sub-band CQI report related to a sub-band of the one or more sub-bands, and transmit a sub-band CQI report based on the identified number of bits. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques related to identifying, when a user equipment (UE) is in a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) cellular network, a data that is to be transmitted in a transport block over multiple slots (TBoMS) in a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); identifying, based on an indication received from a base station, a number of repetitions for transmission of the PUSCH; and transmitting, based on the indication, the TBoMS in the PUSCH over the multiple slots. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to avoiding overlapping uplink transmissions. A user equipment (UE) device may identify a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission and a second PDCCH transmission received from a 5th Generation node (gNB) device; determine, based on the first PDCCH transmission, that the UE device is to transmit a first physical uplink control channel transmission to the gNB device; determine, based on the second PDCCH transmission, that the UE device is to transmit a second physical uplink control channel transmission to the gNB device at a time overlapping the first physical uplink control channel transmission; set a time period after the second PDCCH transmission and during which the UE device is to refrain from transmitting the second physical uplink control channel transmission to the gNB device; and transmit the second physical uplink control channel transmission to the gNB device after the time period.

Abstract: The disclosure describes configuration schemes for secondary cell (SCell), bandwidth part (BWP) and physical resource block (PRB) indexing. An apparatus of user equipment (UE) for BWP activation and deactivation operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to receive radio resource control (RRC) data via the RF interface, configure a timer for a BWP according to the RRC data, and trigger the timer for the BWP in response to detection of an event associated with an access node after the BWP has been activated.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the UE for multi-transmission reception point (TRP) reception, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling. The RRC signaling includes configuration information configuring a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. A media access control (MAC) control element (CE) is decoded, where the MAC CE indicates multiple active TCI states of the configured plurality of TCI states. Multiple received beams are determined using the multiple active TCI states. Downlink information is decoded, where the downlink information originates from multiple TRPs and is received via the determined multiple receive beams associated with the multiple active TCI states.

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that indicates a number of narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) downlink subframes for a downlink scheduling delay of a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH) in one or more radio frames configured for time-division duplexing (TDD) operation. Subframes of the one or more radio frames may include uplink subframes, NB-IoT downlink subframes for downlink NB-IoT transmissions, and downlink subframes for other downlink transmissions. The UE may determine the downlink scheduling delay based on an earliest subframe for which a count of NB-IoT downlink subframes is equal to the number of NB-IoT downlink subframes indicated in the NPDCCH.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical resource block indexing to provide coexistence for narrow band, carrier aggregation, and wide band user equipment in new radio. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical resource block indexing to provide coexistence for narrow band, carrier aggregation, and wide band user equipment in new radio. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) comprises baseband processing circuitry to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved Node B (eNB), and process a message from the eNB indicating a number of repetitions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions to be used over multiple uplink subframes after the radio resource control connection is established.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are timing determination techniques for 5G radio access network (RAN) cells. According to various such techniques, during a random access procedure, a user equipment (UE) may receive a grant of resources for an uplink (UL) data transmission in a random access response (RAR) message. The UE may identify a scheduled slot for the UL data transmission based on a received slot of the RAR message and an applicable slot offset value. The applicable slot offset value may indicate a number of slots by which the received slot precedes the scheduled slot. The applicable slot offset value may be identified using the various techniques described herein.