Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for integrated communication and sensing. For example, an electronic device may transmit a radio frequency (RF) pulse signal in the active phase of a periodic sensing cycle, and sense in the passive phase of the sensing cycle, a reflection of the RF pulse signal reflected from an object. The RF pulse signal is defined by a waveform for carrying communication data between electronic devices. The sensed RF pulse signal is at least a portion of the transmitted or reflected RF pulse signal, wherein the portion is equal to or greater than a threshold value for the object being within a sensing range of the first electronic device. The electronic device may also receive a communication signal from another electronic device during the passive phase.

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless communication field and discloses an apparatus, method and readable storage medium for communication. An example method includes receiving, from a base station, a signaling configuring a numerology in a time duration. The configuring a numerology in a time duration includes configuring a subcarrier spacing (SCS) for one or more symbols in the time duration. Each symbol of the one or more symbols includes a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a useful orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal part. A time length of the useful OFDM signal part is an inverse of the SCS. A number of sampling samples of the useful OFDM signal part is an integer multiple of at least one of prime numbers 3 or 5. A time length of the CP part is in units of k sampling samples. The method further includes communicating with the base station using the numerology.

Abstract: A communication method, a communication device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product are disclosed. In the method, a terminal device receives a trigger signal, where the trigger signal is used to trigger the terminal device to send assistance information to a network device. The terminal device sends the assistance information in response to receiving the trigger signal, where the assistance information indicates at least one beam in a plurality of beams of the network device, and the terminal device is in an idle state or an inactive state. In this manner, the terminal device completes feedback in a non-connected state, so that the assistance information required by a network side is sent while reducing additional energy consumption of the terminal device as much as possible. This helps reduce energy consumption after the network obtains coverage of the terminal in each beam.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure enable the determination of beamforming information and channel information for communication between a transmitter and receiver by using a propagation path map. The propagation path map may provide an association between a location of the receiver and channel characteristics between the transmitter and the receiver via a direct propagation path and possible reflection propagation paths. The propagation path map may be used to obtain a more accurate location of the receiver, AoA at the transmitter and/or receiver, AoD at the transmitter, and/or receiver and other sensing information for beamforming and improving the RF propagation map. The association between a location of the receiver and channel characteristics between the transmitter and the receiver may then aid in performing beam measurements and/or channel measurements.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a communication method and communication apparatus. In an example method, a user equipment (UE) may transmit K sets of sounding reference signals corresponding to K sub-channels of an uplink (UL) channel to a base station (BS). K can be a positive integer. The BS may transmit a downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the K sets of sounding reference signals to the UE. The DCI can include a first information indicating a channel estimation of a first sub-channel among the K sub-channels.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mobility management across multiple subsystems of wireless network devices, such as base-stations, drones, balloons, planes and satellites. In particular, the maintenance of user experiences across the subsystems is addressed. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrating terrestrial networks with non-terrestrial networks and establishing mechanisms for managing mobility of user devices as the devices travel from a service area defined by a connection with a terrestrial network to a service area defined by a connection with a non-terrestrial network or vice versa. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to establishing a format for an exchange of communication between user devices and transmit-receive points so that the mobility of the user device may be appropriately managed.

Abstract: A method applied in a first communication-node side, such as for execution by a transmit-and-receive point (TRP) or a component thereof, for wireless communication with a second communication node such as a user equipment (UE), at least one of the first and second communication nodes being in reduced power consumption for wireless communication related activities, the method has the steps of: transmitting to the second communication node a wakeup signal in accordance with a first set of communication-related information, the wakeup signal comprising control information; and transmitting to the second communication node a first data set in accordance with the control information in the wakeup signal and a second set of communication-related information determined before the transmission of the wakeup signal.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to configuring a target UE to be a sensing reception node. That is, the target UE may be provided with a configuration that allows the target UE to collect sensing information, where generation of the configuration takes into consideration low power and low computational complexity. The configuration may be based on receiving a chirp-based sensing waveform, a plurality of measurements over a plurality of frequency bands or, equivalently, over a plurality of time slots, due to time-frequency relation of chirp-based signals. This may enable fusing these measurements in the frequency domain and/or the time domain, thereby producing fused measurements.

Abstract: A first communication node side is in wireless communication with a second communication node, at least one of the first and second communication nodes being in reduced power consumption for wireless communication related activities, the method includes: transmitting to the second communication node at least a first redundancy version of a data piece; the data piece is at least one selected from the group of: at least a first portion of a wakeup signal and a first data set, the at least first portion of the wakeup signal comprising control information for the first data set; the first redundancy version is one of a plurality of first candidate redundancy versions; and each of the first candidate redundancy versions comprises a different subset of a plurality of first encoded bits, and the plurality of first encoded bits are obtained by encoding the data piece using a first coding method.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus. First-stage control information is sent, where the first-stage control information includes scheduling information of second-stage control information. The scheduling information of the second-stage control information includes scheduling information of first data. The second-stage control information is sent, where the second-stage control information is determined based on a first joint encoding result of the first data and first information. The first information is second control information of second data.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide, in a system that uses multiple radio link types for different networks within the system, methods for selecting more than one radio link type for transmission and acknowledgement of a signal to overcome a problem of mismatch of RTT of signaling over the different radio link types. As a particular example, in an integrated system including both a terrestrial network (TN) portion and a non-terrestrial network (NTN) portion, after an original signal is transmitted over the NTN portion, acknowledgement of the original signal, and retransmissions as necessary, can be carried out over the NT portion.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for spectrum sharing between network technologies. The method includes: generating a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) sequence; and mapping the PUCCH sequence to first PUCCH resource set, where the first PUCCH resource set includes part or all of a second PUCCH resource set associated with a second radio access technology.

Abstract: A method applied in a first communication node side for wireless communication with a second communication node, at least one of the first and second communication nodes being in reduced power consumption for wireless communication related activities, the method has the step of: sending to the second communication node a first data set in accordance with predefined or preconfigured control information; the control information is only arranged in a fallback downlink control information format; or the control information is only arranged in a first simplified fallback downlink control information format; or the control information is arranged in a format selected from a plurality of fallback downlink control information formats, and/or one or more second simplified fallback downlink control information formats.

Abstract: A communication method, a communication device and a non-transitory computer readable memory are provided for generating a first message only within a radio access network (RAN) of the wireless communication network and for communicating the first message in a radio bearer (RB) with a second communication device within the RAN. The first message is associated with a first message type, a priority of the first message type being lower than a priority of a second message having second message type communicated via a core network (CN) of the wireless communication network. The first message can comprise control signaling or data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for spectrum sharing between network technologies. The method includes: receiving configuration information, where the configuration information indicates first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, the first CSI-RS resources include a first part, and the first part includes part or all of second CSI-RS resources associated with a second radio access technology; and receiving a CSI-RS based on the configuration information.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to methods, devices and a computer readable storage medium for beam activation and switching. In an aspect, a terminal device obtains an indication of at least one angular direction. The terminal device communicates signals with a non-terrestrial network device using one of at least one beam associated with the at least one angular direction. In this way, the terminal device can communicate with the non-terrestrial network using a beam associated with one of the indicated angular direction(s).

Abstract: Signaling resource overhead associated with current communication link adaptation mechanisms can be quite large and such mechanisms typically rely upon a channel state information (CSI) feedback process that can result in poor scheduling performance. Embodiments are disclosed in which a first device channel state information characterizing a wireless communication channel between the first device and a second device, and trains a machine learning (ML) module of the first device using the CSI as an ML module input and one or more modulation and coding scheme (MCS) parameters as an ML module output to satisfy a training target. By applying the concepts disclosed herein, overhead associated with feedback for MCS selection may be reduced compared to conventional link adaptation procedures, because, once ML modules at a pair of devices have been trained, the MCS selection by the ML modules can be done without requiring the ongoing feedback of CSI.

Abstract: A two-stage DCI framework is provided in which the first stage DCI is carried by PDCCH, second stage DCI is carried by PDSCH. The first stage DCI is blind decoded. The second stage DCI is indicated by the first stage DCI and therefore no blind decoding is necessary. The size of the second stage DCI can be very flexible, can indicate scheduling information for one carrier, multiple carriers, multi transmission for one carrier. The first stage DCI can be compact in size to enhance reliability.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to methods, devices and a computer readable storage medium for two-stage RA. In an aspect, a first network device receives RA preambles from devices. The first network device transmits, based on the received RA preambles, a group RA request to a second network device. The group RA request indicating that the devices attempt to establish connections with the second network device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for resource indication. The method includes: receiving control information, where the control information indicates one or more first resource units, the one or more first resource units are located in a first control resource set, and the one or more first resource units are used for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and receiving the PDSCH based on the control information. Unused control resources can be used for data transmission.