Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for beam management operations in wireless communication systems.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for scheduling multiple downlink transmissions using a single downlink control transmission in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may determine a beam configuration for use for receiving multiple downlink transport blocks scheduled by a single downlink control transmission. In some instances, the wireless device may be configured to skip one or more control channel monitoring occasions that overlap with the downlink transport blocks. The wireless device may provide hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for the downlink transport blocks.

Abstract: A network-controlled repeater (NCR) may receive configuration information from a base station to configure one or more receive (Rx) beams and corresponding time-domain resources for potential reception from one or more user equipments (UEs). The NCR may monitor for reception of a physical uplink channel or signal from the one or more UEs on the configured one or more Rx beams on the corresponding time-domain resources and determine that the physical uplink channel or signal is not received for at least a threshold amount of time. Additionally, the NCR may determine to refrain from at least one of additional monitoring for reception of the physical uplink channel or signal from the one or more UEs or transmission of one or more synchronization signal block (SSBs) to the one or more UEs for a duration of time.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one or more candidate beams during a candidate beam detection (CBD) evaluation period and transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to the base station.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine to perform a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with an antenna port switch operation, wherein the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch operation is performed during an SRS transmission occasion comprising one or more symbols of a slot and apply one or more scheduling restriction rules corresponding to the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch to provide one or more scheduling restrictions for the UE, wherein the scheduling restrictions cause the UE to omit performing at least one of transmission operations or reception operations during one or more symbols of the slot or one or more symbols of an adjacent slot.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for paging early indication (PEI) and paging subgrouping are described herein. One described user equipment (UE) includes a set of one or more transceivers and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit, via the set of one or more transceivers, UE assistance information including a preferred time offset between receipt of a PEI by the UE and receipt of a paging occasion (PO) by the UE; transition from a sleep state to an awake state prior to the PO; and monitor for the PEI via the set of one or more transceivers, after transitioning to the awake state.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), baseband processor or other network device (e.g., base station, next generation NodeB, etc.) can operate to configure a hand over (HO) or a primary secondary cell (PSCell) addition based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based contention free random access (CFRA) procedure. A CSI-RS rough timing of a CSI-RS position can be determined based on a synchronization signal block (SSB) associated with a CSI-RS or a serving cell timing. A CFRA transmit timing can be determined based on the CSI-RS rough timing or a CSI-RS fine timing that is derived from a timing and frequency (T/F) tracking operation on the CSI-RS. Reference signal receive power (RSRP) measurement(s) can be made on the CSI-RS for performing the CSI-RS based CFRA procedure with transmissions according to the CSI-RS transmit timing of the CSI-RS that satisfies an RSRP threshold.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: methods and systems for latency reduction in user equipment (UE) for inter-cell mobility. In one example, a method is disclosed for receiving, at a user equipment (UE), configuration data specifying that a random access response (RAR) window that is started at the first symbol of an earliest type-1 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion (MO), wherein a time gap between a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission and the earlier type-1 PDCCH MO is at least ‘kB’ symbols or slots or million seconds. The method includes transmitting, based on the configuration data, the PRACH transmission, and monitoring, within the RAR window specified by the configuration, each type-1 PDCCH MOs for RAR reception in response to the PRACH transmission.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured for half-duplex operations with a network. The UE determines that half-duplex (HD) frequency division duplex (FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, wherein a guard period is configured for downlink and uplink switching when the HD FDD is enabled, performs a first uplink transmission at a first time and performs a first downlink reception at a second time, wherein the guard period represents a time duration between the first time and the second time during which the UE is not to perform a second different uplink transmission or a second different downlink reception.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for port selection codebook configuration when a user equipment (UE) receives communicates with a plurality of transmission and reception points (TRPs). For multiple TRP (multi-TRP) coherent joint transmission (CJT) channel state information (CSI) reporting, a codebook is provided with a codebook structure by (I) or (HI) in which t is a TRP index corresponding to a particular TRP, T is a total number of TRPs, (III) are Type II CSI codebooks reported for TRPs corresponding to index t, and (IV) are linear combination coefficients applied to each codebook for different TRPs. (V) for a spatial basis selection matrix (VI) a combination coefficient matrix (Vs) and a frequency basis selection matrix (VIII).

Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink and uplink scheduling in communication above 52.6 GHz. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station. The base station includes a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor determines that the communication between the base station and the UE is in a frequency range above 52.6 GHz. In response to the determination, the processor disables a frequency main resource assignment (FDRA), modifies a Resource Block Group (RBG) size, or modifies a Resource Indication Value (RIV) determination. The processor generates a Downlink Channel Indicator (DCI) based at least on one or more of the disabled FDRA, the modified RBG size, or the modified RIV determination. The processor transmits, using the transceiver, the DCI to the UE.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit capability information to a base station corresponding to a release 17 (Rel-17) multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring (MSM) capability and receive configuration information to perform MSM, wherein the UE is configured with a number of downlink cells that are greater than a reported number of downlink cells. A base station is configured to receive capability information from a user equipment (UE) corresponding to a release 17 (Rel-17) multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring (MSM) capability and transmit configuration information to the UE related to MSM, wherein the UE is configured with a number of downlink cells that are greater than a reported number of downlink cells.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to report beam information for a secondary cell. The UE receives a signal from a network indicating that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell (SCell) activation procedure has been initiated, collects beam information corresponding to a target PUCCH SCell, reports the beam information to the network, determines that the target PUCCH SCell has been activated as a PUCCH SCell and transmits uplink control information (UCI) over a PUCCH to the PUCCH SCell, wherein the UE is also configured with a different PUCCH corresponding to a primary cell (PCell).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to measurement gap cancellation. A method for a user equipment (UE) may comprise receiving, from a network (NW) device, measurement gap (MG) cancellation information associated with a particular MG of one or more MG patterns to be used by the UE; and determining whether the particular MG shall be cancelled based on the MG cancellation information.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, apparatuses and methods with slot format enhancements for radio frequency (RF) harvesting. RF harvesting enhancements may facilitate the use of ambient IoT devise. In some embodiments, a network node may allocate symbols within a slot and configure one or more of the symbols within the slot as one or more RF harvesting symbols. The network node may transmit data during downlink symbols of the slot, and receive data from one or more user equipment (UE) devices during uplink symbols of the slot. Further, the network node may reserve the one or more RF harvesting symbols for transmission of an RF harvesting signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining, by a user equipment, a type of a transmission; selecting, based on the type of the transmission, a bandwidth mode from a plurality of bandwidth modes; and communicating, using the bandwidth mode, the transmission.

Abstract: The present application relates to a reduced complexity UE. In an example, the UE includes multiple receive ports to support downlink multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operations. This set can be six or more to support six or more layers for the downlink MIMO operations. A first set of the receive ports are logically grouped in a first group, and a second set of the receive ports are logically grouped in a second group. A channel state information (CSI) sent by the UE to a base station can indicate the mapping of the layers (or the receive ports) to codewords that the base station is to send to the UE. Additionally, or alternatively, an SRS transmission by the UE is associated with a particular group of the receive ports.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for mapping codewords to transmission layers and transmitting phase tracking reference signals in wireless networks.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to DMRS overhead adaptation with AI-based channel estimation. A wireless device may be configured to receive, from a network device, a downlink data transmitted using a DMRS pattern; perform an AI-based downlink channel estimation based on the downlink data, including: inputting one or more received downlink DMRS symbols included in the received downlink data to a neural network model for downlink channel estimation stored in the memory of the wireless device, to obtain, as outputs of the neural network model, an estimated downlink channel corresponding to the downlink data and an optimal downlink DMRS pattern for the estimated downlink channel; and report the optimal downlink DMRS pattern to the network device.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for inactive mode DRX cycle and/or measurement cycle determination, e.g., such as for radio resource management (RRM) in inactive mode, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond, including systems, methods, and mechanisms for determining a DRX cycle for cell detection and measurement. An inactive mode DRX cycle periodicity may be determined by scaling a periodicity of an idle mode DRX cycle, an inactive mode eDRX cycle, an idle mode eDRX cycle, and/or by a paging occasion cycle. The scale factor may be predefined, specified by a standard, and/or configured via higher layer signaling. Additionally, whether an inactive mode DRX cycle is determined by scaling a periodicity of an idle mode DRX cycle, a paging occasion cycle, an inactive mode eDRX cycle, or an idle mode eDRX cycle may depend on one or more conditions associated with a UE.