Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration to configure a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and generating first uplink control information (UCI) in response to the first SPS PDSCH, where the RRC configuration includes a first parameter that indicates a priority of the first UCI.

Abstract: A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.

Abstract: A method for a UE performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process for a deprioritized uplink (UL) grant is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, a first UL grant scheduling a first UL transmission on a first UL resource and a second UL grant scheduling a second UL transmission on a second UL resource, the second UL resource at least partially overlapping the first UL resource in a time domain, determining the first UL grant as a prioritized UL grant, determining the second UL grant as a deprioritized UL grant, performing the first UL transmission scheduled by the prioritized UL grant, receiving a third UL grant scheduling a retransmission on a third UL resource, the retransmission corresponding to the second UL transmission scheduled by the deprioritized UL grant and flushing a HARQ buffer of a HARQ process for the second UL transmission in response to receiving the third UL grant.

Abstract: A method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), for a Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) procedure includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a BFR configuration for a serving cell of the BS, wherein the BFR configuration includes a threshold for a Beam Failure Instance (BFI) counter associated with the serving cell, and the threshold is associated with a beamFailureInstanceMaxCount information element (IE); incrementing a value of the BFI counter based on a Beam Failure Detection (BFD); triggering the BFR procedure for the serving cell when the value of the BFI counter is equal to or higher than the threshold; performing Band Width Part (BWP) switching for the serving cell when receiving a reconfiguration indication from the BS, wherein the reconfiguration indication includes a BWP index; and setting the value of the BFI counter to zero when performing the BWP switching.

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for interpreting downlink control information (DCI) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message; receiving DCI; determining a configuration status of a first information element (IE) in the RRC message; and interpreting the DCI by considering a field size of a downlink feedback information (DFI) flag included in the DCI to be associated with the configuration status of the first IE in the RRC message. In addition, a UE using the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A user equipment and a method for configuring Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources are provided. The method includes receiving a first bandwidth part (BWP) configuration associated with a first uplink (UL) BWP, the first BWP configuration including a PUCCH configuration list with a first PUCCH configuration and a second PUCCH configuration, the first PUCCH configuration indicating a first set of PUCCH resource identifiers (IDs), the second PUCCH configuration indicating a second set of PUCCH resource IDs; and receiving a second BWP configuration associated with a second UL BWP, the second BWP configuration including a third PUCCH configuration, the third PUCCH configuration indicating a third set of PUCCH resource IDs. The first set of PUCCH resource IDs and the second set of PUCCH resource IDs share no common PUCCH resource ID.

Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving serving-cell-configurations of a first serving cell and a second serving cell; receiving a Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) configuration including a configuration list that includes at least one configuration, the BFR configuration being used for at least the first serving cell, the at least one configuration indicating an identifier value of a Downlink Reference Signal (DL RS); performing a measurement by measuring at least one DL RS indicated by the configuration list, the measurement being associated with a measurement metric; selecting one configuration included in the configuration list after detecting beam failure in the first serving cell, the measurement metric of a DL RS indicated by the selected one configuration being greater than a threshold; transmitting a Medium Access Control-Control Element (MAC-CE) including at least one bitmap.

Abstract: A method and a user equipment (UE) for reporting UE capability for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes: receiving control information for scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) or a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) on the plurality of serving cells; and performing, based on the control information, receptions of the plurality of PDSCHs on the plurality of serving cells or transmissions of the plurality of PUSCHs on the plurality of serving cells. The control information includes a plurality of fields, and the plurality of fields include at least one of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number field, a PDSCH-to-HARQ timing indicator field, and a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) field, and the TDRA field is used to allocate time domain resources for all of the plurality of PDSCHs or all of the plurality of PUSCHs.

Abstract: A method of uplink resource allocation and a user equipment are provided. The method includes: receiving a configuration and the configuration contains at least one configured uplink grant configuration; selecting one of the at least one configured uplink grant configuration in response to a trigger event; determining an uplink resource according to the selected configured uplink grant configuration; and transmitting pending uplink data via the uplink resource.

Abstract: A method for a PDCP duplication function for a UE is provided. The method receives PDCP duplication configuration for (i) configuring a plurality of LCHs between a MAC entity and a plurality of RLC entities of the UE and (ii) configuring a set of LCHs as active LCHs and another set of LCHs as inactive LCHs. The method receives an LCH cell restriction configuration for associating resources of one or more of the serving cells with each of the LCHs. The method then determines whether the PDCP duplication function is activated. When the PDCP duplication function is activated and a number of active LCHs is greater than one, the method applies the LCH cell restriction configuration to the active LCHs, otherwise, if the number of active LCHs is equal to one, the method does not apply the LCH cell restriction configuration to any of the LCHs.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration to configure a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and generating first uplink control information (UCI) in response to the first SPS PDSCH, where the RRC configuration includes a first parameter that indicates a priority of the first UCI.

Abstract: A method and a User Equipment (UE) for performing a small data transmission are provided. The method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message; transitioning to an RRC_INACTIVE state in response to receiving the RRC release message; measuring at least one Downlink (DL) Reference Signal (RS) to obtain a measurement result; selecting a particular Configure Grant (CG) resource for the small data transmission according to the measurement result; determining whether a Timing Advance (TA) value for the particular CG resource is valid for small data transmission according to (i) an amount of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) change of a particular DL RS associated with the particular CG resource, the particular DL RS being one of the at least one DL RS, and (ii) whether a TA-related timer is running; and performing the small data transmission on the particular CG resource after determining that the TA value is valid.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for wireless communication are provided. The method includes receiving a first radio resource control (RRC) configuration, the first RRC configuration configuring a radio link monitoring configuration that includes a beam failure detection (BFD) timer and a beam failure indication (BFI) count threshold; starting or restarting the BFD timer by a medium access control (MAC) entity of the UE each time a BFI is received from a lower layer; counting a number of the received BFIs using a BFI counter; initiating a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure upon determining that the BFI counter indicates a value greater than or equal to the BFI count threshold; and setting the BFI counter to zero when receiving a second RRC configuration that reconfigures the radio link monitoring configuration.

Abstract: A method of listen before talk (LBT) recovery procedure for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method comprises performing an LBT failure detection procedure for a serving cell, triggering the LBT recovery procedure for the serving cell in response to detecting consistent uplink (UL) LBT failures in a first bandwidth part (BWP) on the serving cell according to the LBT failure detection procedure, where the LBT recovery procedure includes triggering an LBT failure procedure for determining the first BWP as an invalid BWP, and cancelling the triggered LBT recovery procedure for the serving cell in response to confirming a predefined condition in the UE.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method for frame-based equipment (FBE) operation in an unlicensed band are provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a first parameter indicating a first periodicity of a fixed frame period (FFP) used when the BS acts as an initiating device for the FBE operation; and receiving, from the BS, a second parameter indicating a second periodicity of the FFP used when the UE acts as the initiating device for the FBE operation.

Abstract: A method performed by a BS for handling repetitions of transmissions is provided. The method includes transmitting an RRC configuration including a first parameter configured with a first value and a second parameter configured with at least one second value; and transmitting DCI on a PDCCH scheduling a PUSCH transmission. The DCI enables the UE to select one of the first parameter and the second parameter to determine a number of PUSCH repetitions; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as the first value when the first parameter is selected; determine the number of PUSCH repetitions as one of the at least one second value indicated by the DCI when the second parameter is selected; and perform the PUSCH transmission for a number of times based on the number of PUSCH repetitions. A BS using the aforementioned method is also provided.

Abstract: A wireless communication method performed by a User Equipment (UE) for providing uplink (UL) feedback in response to receiving data corresponding to a Multicast Broadcast Service (MBS) is presented. The wireless communication method includes receiving the data corresponding to the MBS; and enabling a transmission of the UL feedback in response to receiving the data corresponding to the MBS if at least one of a plurality of predetermined conditions is satisfied. The plurality of predetermined conditions includes receiving an indication to enable the UL feedback in response to receiving the data corresponding to the MBS and receiving an indication of a UL resource for transmitting the UL feedback.

Abstract: A method for random access (RA) performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a first beam failure recovery configuration of an uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP); initiating a first RA procedure for notifying a base station of a beam failure occurrence in a serving cell when a number of beam failure instances is larger than or equal to a threshold; receiving a second beam failure recovery configuration of the UL BWP before completion of the first RA procedure; stopping the first RA procedure upon receiving the second BFR configuration of the UL BWP; and initiating a second RA procedure for notifying the base station of the beam failure occurrence regardless of a number of beam failure instances received after stopping the first RA procedure.

Abstract: A wireless communication method includes receiving, in an RRC_CONNECTED state, an RRC release message including first information and second information, the first information including at least one LCP restriction, the second information including one or more CG configurations; transitioning from the RRC_CONNECTED state to the RRC_INACTIVE state in response to the RRC release message; determining that data from an LCH corresponding to the at least one LCP restriction becomes available for UL transmission; determining whether to transmit the data in the RRC_INACTIVE state according to whether any of the one or more CG configurations meets the at least one LCP mapping restriction; and in a case that a CG configuration of the one or more CG configurations meets the at least one LCP mapping restriction, transmitting the data through a set of PUSCHs determined by the CG configuration of the one or more CG configurations.

Abstract: A wireless communication method and a User Equipment (UE) for Random Access (RA) operations are provided. The wireless communication method includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration message including information related to a reconfiguration with synchronization, the information including a Contention Free Random Access (CFRA) configuration for 2-step Random Access (RA), the CFRA configuration configuring a resource and a maximum number of Message-A (MSGA) preamble transmissions; initiating an RA procedure, with an RA type set to a 2-step RA type, for the reconfiguration with synchronization; and discarding the resource in a case that a value of a preamble transmission counter reaches to the maximum number of MSGA preamble transmissions.