Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, identify a collision between a cell-specific downlink reception and a cell-specific uplink transmission and implement a HD-FDD collision handling technique. A UE may also be configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, perform a first cell-specific uplink transmission at a first time and perform a first cell-specific downlink reception at a second time, wherein a 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 cell-specific uplink transmission or a second different cell-specific downlink reception.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for reference signal indication for idle or inactive user equipments.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for configuring measurement timings in connection with UEs that are capable of signaling whether a measurement gap (MG) is needed to measure a target frequency carrier. For example, a measurement period may be determined for the target frequency carrier based on the UE indicating that it supports per-frequency range (FR) MGs, and determining that the FR of the target frequency carrier does not include any current serving cell(s). If the UE indicates that no MG is needed to measure the target frequency carrier, then the measurement period may be based on an SMTC, and may be further based on a predefined effective measurement gap repetition period (MGRP). If the UE indicates that a MG is needed, then the measurement period may be based on the SMTC, and may be further based on the effective MGRP or a per-UE MGRP.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a user equipment device (UE) performing a quasi-colocation (QCL) update in a wireless communication system. The UE may receive an indication to change a spatial relationship for transmission/reception. The UE may receive aperiodic reference signals for use in beam tracking according to the new spatial relationship. The UE may also receive provide aperiodic reference signals for time, frequency, and/or phase tracking. Thus, the UE may change to the new spatial relationship and use the aperiodic reference signals to quickly complete initial tracking operations.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to simultaneously connect to a primary cell (PCell) serving a primary component carrier (PCC), a primary secondary cell (PSCell) serving a primary secondary component carrier (PSCC) and at least one secondary cell (SCell) serving a secondary component carrier (SCC), wherein the PSCell is in a deactivated state. The UE receives a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration comprising a PCC measurement object (MO) configuration, a PSCC MO configuration, and an SCC MO configuration, determines a PCC MO carrier specific scaling factor (CSSF), a PSCC MO CSSF, and an SCC MO CSSF and applies each respective CSSF to a measurement period corresponding to each of the PCC MO, the PSCC MO, and the SCC MO.

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inter-cell interference mitigation. One example aspect is a user equipment (UE), configured to receive a network assistance indication associated with an interfering signal, where the interfering signal interferes with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. A time resource allocation of the interfering signal is different than a time resource allocation of the PDSCH transmission. The UE is further configured to determine an interference and noise covariance estimation mechanism based on the network assistance indication then perform interference and noise covariance estimation based on the noise covariance estimation mechanism. The UE is further configured to perform mitigation of the interfering signal using a mitigation mechanism based on the interference and noise covariance estimation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines an occurrence of the DL SPS or the UL CG to determine a periodicity of a packet generation is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the method receives a configuration for a downlink (DL) Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) or an uplink (UL) Configured Grant (CG). The configuration includes an indication of non-integer periodicity of the DL SPS or the UL CG. Additionally, the method determines an occurrence of the DL SPS or the UL CG based on the received configuration for the DL SPS or the UL CG to determine a periodicity of a packet generation. Thereafter, the method transmits or receives data based on the configuration for the DL SPS or the UL CG.

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

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), 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.