Abstract: In aspects of a Selective Retransmission Request (SeRQ) protocol proposed herein for wireless communication, a UE may group Retransmission Request (RTQ) feedback information bits for a plurality of transport blocks (TBs). The RTQ feedback information may be understood to indicate, to a non-terrestrial transmit receive point (NT-TRP), which TBs, among the plurality of TBs in the window, were not decoded properly. UEs may generate RTQ feedback information bits for a group of TBs received during a single window or TBs that have been received during multiple, distinct windows. The generation, by the UEs, of the RTQ feedback information bits for a group of TBs may be encoded based on, e.g., source coding, codebooks, binomial coefficients, etc. Upon receipt of a retransmitted version of a given TB, the UE may combine previously received bits of the given TB with the retransmitted TB version of the given TB.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for protecting a reference signal (RS) and/or adjusting timing advance (TA) values to be used for timing synchronization between an apparatus (e.g. user equipment (UE))) and a device (e.g. transmit-and-receive point (TRP)) in a wireless network. The device operates in full-duplex (FD) mode and the apparatus operates in half-duplex (HD) or FD mode. In some embodiments, RSs transmitted in uplink and downlink directions are protected by puncturing one or more portions of time-frequency resources so that interference from other signals can be avoided or mitigated. The punctured portion of the time-frequency resources may be one or more symbols that together overlaps with a symbol at which the RS is to be received or sent. The device may send information indicating the portion to puncture using a higher-layer signaling, a dynamic signaling, or a preconfiguration by the network.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to a multi-link and/or multi-carrier serving cell. Within the multi-link serving cell, uplink carriers and downlink carriers in paired spectrum or unpaired spectrum may be decoupled from each other and or may be shared across different link-types. Multiple downlink carriers may be configured within a single cell (i.e., within a single, multi-carrier cell) and each uplink carrier may be associated with, or linked to, multiple downlink carriers.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user equipment (UE) having active device components and passive device components. Responsive to receiving downlink (DL) transmissions in time division duplexing (TDD) mode, the active device components perform DL decoding while the passive device components perform passive transmission of ACK/NACK data. Such passive transmission may involve encoding the ACK/NACK data in an altered version of received radio frequency (RF) signals and using so-called backscatter communications to reflect the received RF signals, with alteration, using the same frequency resources used to receive the DL transmissions.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the selection of a waveform for an integrated communications and sensing (ICS) signal, where the waveform is suitable for both communication applications and sensing applications. In view of the sensing applications, the waveform selection can be, at least in part, adapted based on capabilities of hardware of nodes involved in the sensing applications. In view of the communication applications, the waveform selection can be, at least in part, adapted based on the extent to which data is to be embedded.

Abstract: Multiple communication paths are established for communications between a User Equipment (UE) and a wireless communication network, before switching between those paths is initiated. Signaling that includes an explicit indication that the UE is to switch between the multiple communication paths is transmitted to and received by at least the UE for which the multiple communication paths were established. Responsive to the explicit indication, communications are switched between the communication paths. At least one of the communication paths includes a relay path between the UE and the wireless communication network through another UE. Establishment of the multiple paths in advance of the switching may be useful in enabling fast switching with low latency and/or no traffic loss.

Abstract: A transmitter and receiver framework that is flexibly configurable between various cooperative MIMO configurations is provided, for example, between closed-loop MIMO and open-loop MIMO. A method of signaling is provided for use in configuring a shared medium access control (MAC) layer in a first apparatus, such as a user equipment, for use in cooperative transmission by a plurality of apparatus inclusive of the first apparatus.

Abstract: The power requirements of user equipments (UEs) are expected to increase as their capabilities increase. Some power saving methods have previously been proposed, but are limited by the radio resource control (RRC) protocol and do not address the power consumption associated with having to transition between different RRC states. In some embodiments described herein, there are not different RRC states, but instead a single RRC state. Within that single RRC state, there are different modes of operation, e.g. a default low power operation mode and an enhanced power operation mode. In some embodiments, the UE switches from the default operation mode to the enhanced operation mode on an on-demand basis (e.g. based on the communication capability required by the UE), and then returns back to the default operation mode.

Abstract: An integrated terrestrial/non-terrestrial network may allow for enhanced network coverage. However, there are control and management challenges associated with an integrated terrestrial/non-terrestrial network because the network and user equipments (UEs) are no longer confined to only using conventional cellular communication via terrestrial transmit-and-receive points (T-TRPs). One challenge is how to perform beam management. In some embodiments, methods and systems are disclosed in which an indication of angular direction (e.g. beam direction) is provided by the T-TRP. The indication of angular direction may be used by a UE for communicating with a non-terrestrial TRP (NT-TRP), e.g. using beamforming. However, the methods are not limited to integrated terrestrial/non-terrestrial networks or the involvement of NT-TRPs, but apply more generally to indicating angular direction for directional communication.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to sensing-based, mobility-aware waveform adaptation. A transmitting device may estimate a velocity vector for a mobile device. The velocity vector estimate may be based on measurements made at the mobile device and fed back to the transmitting device or based on measurements made at other devices in the environment and provided to the transmitting device. The transmitting device may, based on the estimate of the velocity vector, obtain a Doppler variable estimate for a signal path between the transmitting device and the mobile device. The transmitting device may then adapt a to-be-transmitted waveform based on the Doppler variable estimate for the signal path and then transmit the adapted waveform. Occasionally, the transmitting device may obtain updates to parameters that describe the location and mobility of the mobile device. On the basis of the updates, the transmitting device may update the waveform adaptation.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application provide a system with a RIS panel with a unique geometrical shape surface, two RIS panels, also referred to as an RIS-pair, or a group of more than two RIS panels that are jointly controlled to aid wireless communication coverage holes.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a manner of avoiding excessive latency and resource consumption due to exhaustive beam searching and pairing for finding an appropriate bi-directional beam pair combination with manageable mutual interference to enable point-to-point FD transmission. Aspects of the present disclosure also provide a solution for enabling multi-user transmission where one or all UEs are with FD capability and the cross-UE interference raised from FD transmission are measured and taken into account during multi-user pairing.

Abstract: This application provides a model training method and apparatus. The method includes: A first processing node obtains at least one first model; the first processing node processes the at least one first model to generate a first common model; and the first processing node determines a second processing node, where the second processing node is a processing node for a next round of model processing, and the first common model is obtained by the second processing node before the next round of model processing. In technical solutions provided in this application, before the next round of model processing, a processing node for the next round of model processing may be determined based on an actual requirement, to adapt to a change of an application scenario.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to configure grant-free transmission resources are provided. At least two configuration options can co-exist for configuring the grant-free transmission resources. The base station may explicitly or implicitly notify a user equipment which option is selected for grant-free transmission by that user equipment.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to a multi-link and/or multi-carrier serving cell configured to enable a flexible, multi-connectivity framework among terrestrial network carriers and non-terrestrial network carriers. Within the multi-link serving cell, uplink carriers and downlink carriers in paired spectrum or unpaired spectrum may be decoupled from each other and or may be shared across different link-types. Multiple downlink carriers may be configured within a single cell (i.e., within a single, multi-carrier cell) and each uplink carrier may be associated with, or linked to, multiple downlink carriers.

Abstract: Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the known transmit antenna diversity schemes and the scrambled data is descrambled according to a corresponding descrambling sequence (related to the scrambling sequence). Based on the descrambled data, the receiver determines which transmit antenna diversity scheme (i.e., the number of antenna ports) is used by the transmitter. In one specific embodiment, CRC parity data is scrambled in the transmitter and the receiver descrambles the recovered CRC parity data according to a descrambling sequence, computes CRC parity data from the received data, and compares the descrambled CRC parity data to the newly computed CRC parity data.

Abstract: A method includes: a terminal device sends a first message to a network device, where the first message is associated with a service of the terminal device, and the first message is for waking up the network device. The terminal device establishes a connection to the network device. According to the method, the service of the terminal device is associated with the first message for waking up the network device, so that the network device wakes up a device based on the first message associated with the service.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide solutions to UE-initiated beam switching, beam pair switching, or link switching based on use of an association of at least two types of reference signals. The at least two types of reference signals include, but are not limited to, a beam management reference signal (BM-RS), a tracking reference signal (T-RS) and a channel state information acquisition reference signal (CSIA-RS).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for providing feedback in a HARQ scheme are described. A transmission-specific channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback scheme is described. A channel coding-related feedback scheme is also described.

Abstract: A communication method includes: a first apparatus obtains first information, where the first information indicates the first apparatus to perform multi-link hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) combination; the first apparatus receives first data from a first link, where the first data is initial transmission data or retransmission data for third data, and the first link is a link between the first apparatus and a second apparatus; the first apparatus receives second data from a second link, where the second data is retransmission data for the third data, and the second link is a link between the first apparatus and a third apparatus; and the first apparatus performs HARQ combination on the first data and the second data based on the first information.