Abstract: This application provides a communication method. The method includes: A first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information, and performs carrier aggregation communication on at least two transmit carriers based on the first configuration information. The first configuration information indicates the first communication apparatus to perform carrier aggregation communication on the at least two transmit carriers, the at least two transmit carriers include a first transmit carrier and a second transmit carrier, the first transmit carrier corresponds to a first communication standard, the second transmit carrier corresponds to a second communication standard, and the first communication standard is different from the second communication standard.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods of utilizing controllable metasurface devices capable of redirecting a wavefront transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver in the wireless network to take advantage of the controllable metasurface device capabilities, intelligence, coordination and reconfiguration speed, and thereby enable solutions having different signaling details and capability requirements. Methods described herein provide mechanisms for identification of a RIS deployed in a communication network, identification of possible RIS to UE links, setup of base station (BS) to RIS links and RIS to UE links, activation of the RIS, and configuration of UEs to receive data from the BS via redirection by the RIS.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for communications. A receiving apparatus obtains common information and information of K reference channel(s). The common information is used for determining information of a downlink (DL) channel between a transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus, and the K reference channel(s) is related to an environment parameter set. The receiving apparatus transmits feedback information based on the common information and the information of the K reference channel(s), and the feedback information includes the information of the DL channel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for communications. A receiving apparatus may obtain information of K reference channel(s), and the information of the K reference channel(s) is related to an environment parameter set. The receiving apparatus further obtains channel estimation of a first channel, and then transmits first information based on a similarity metric value. The similarity metric value may be calculated according to the information of the K reference channel(s) and the channel estimation of the first channel. The first information indicates a similarity metric value between the first channel and a first reference channel.

Abstract: A method, a system, and an apparatus for uplink wireless communication are provided. the method includes a first communication device decides to transmit first traffic data in a first resource overlapping with a second resource to a second communication device. The second resource is scheduled by the second communication device for transmission of second traffic data by the first communication device. The first communication device can send the first traffic data (for example, the URLLC traffic data) quickly and reliably according the method.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: sending Q group(s) of first data sample(s) corresponding to Q layer(s) of an AI model, where the Q group(s) of the first data sample(s) is from compressed Q group(s) of first raw data sample(s) which is compressed according to Q transformation matrix(es).

Abstract: A resource configuration method and a communication apparatus are disclosed. In the method, a network device configures N PRACH resource sets for a terminal device; and the terminal device performs, based on first sequence information, a random access attempt by sequentially using M PRACH resource sets in the N PRACH resource sets, where the first sequence information is for determining a sequence of performing random access attempt by using the M PRACH resource sets.

Abstract: Restrictions associated with the use of multiple carriers in long-term evolution (LTE) and/or new radio (NR) may impede implementing a flexible personalized spectrum for different user equipments (UEs). Apparatuses, devices, and methods are instead provided in which there is more flexible spectrum utilization, e.g. in which there may be fewer restrictions and more options for configuring carriers and/or bandwidth parts (BWPs) on a UE-specific basis. As one example, there may be a plurality of uplink and/or downlink carriers, with signaling indicating addition, modification, release, activation, deactivation, and/or scheduling of a particular carrier of the uplink carriers and/or downlink carriers, e.g. on an independent carrier-by-carrier basis.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: receiving, in a first mode, a wake-up signal (WUS), where a parameter of the WUS is associated with a location identifier; and transitioning from the first mode to a second mode based on the parameter of the WUS and a location identifier of the receiving apparatus, where the location identifier of the receiving apparatus indicates a location of the receiving apparatus. One or more of receiving apparatuses (nodes) associated with the location identifier can use the same WUS for a WU procedure.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to mobile communication devices having active device components and passive device components and, more particularly, to operation of the passive device components to form a backscatter signal from a received forward signal. Forming the backscatter signal may include generating the backscatter signal from the received forward signal without decoding a plurality of sub-signals in the received forward signal, the backscatter signal being a time-domain function of a contiguous subset of the time-domain plurality of sub-signals in the received forward signal. Upon receipt of the backscatter signal, a reception point may obtain information about the mobile communication device that contains the passive device components. Such information may relate to timing, position and identity.

Abstract: Provided are a sensing communication method, apparatus, and system. An apparatus such as a central device can send tokenization configuration and broadcast or multi-cast or unicast query message(s), so that other apparatus(es) such as one or more sensing devices can obtain the query message(s) and respond with sensing result(s) in response to the obtained query message(s). The sensing result(s) may include at least one piece of sensed data and/or at least one sensing semantic corresponding to sensing token(s) that is determined from at least one sensing token and matches query message(s), where the at least one sensing token is tokenized from at least one sensing semantic based on the tokenization configuration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: receiving reference signals; performing channel estimation based on the reference signals to obtain first channel coefficients corresponding to a first channel; and, obtaining second channel coefficients corresponding to a second channel based on the first channel coefficients and assistance information, the assistance information indicates a relationship between the first channel and the second channel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes: obtaining distance(s) between q reference distribution(s) and distribution(s) of q layer(s) of a first AI model in an inference cycle, where the q reference distribution(s) corresponds to the q layer(s), and q is a positive integer; and sending first information according to the distance(s).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: a communication apparatus performs a first channel estimation to obtain first channel information of a first channel and second channel information of a second channel, and obtains assistance information based on the first channel information and the second channel information, where the assistance information indicates a relationship between the first channel and the second channel. The method could be viewed as a training procedure to obtain the assistance information, and the assistance information is for further channel estimation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The communication method includes sending first information according to one or more learning metrics, where the one or more learning metrics are based on distance(s) between distribution(s) of outputs of p latent layer(s) in an AI model and distribution of inputs of the AI model during a training cycle, and/or distance(s) between distribution(s) of outputs of p? latent layer(s) and distribution of outputs of an AI model during a training cycle.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application relate to defining a plurality of energy consumption levels for various operational states. Each energy consumption level may be associated with a configuration. The configuration may include values for a plurality of parameters. The parameters may be used for communication. As these parameters may affect the energy consumption of a transmission.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining at least two sets of parameter configurations, where the at least two sets of parameter configurations include a first parameter configuration for sensing and a second parameter configuration for sensing, the first parameter configuration includes a first subcarrier spacing SCS, the second parameter configuration includes a second SCS, and the first SCS is greater than the second SCS; and performing sensing based on the at least two sets of parameter configurations. A sensing and detection distance is restricted by a length of an OFDM symbol, and the length of the OFDM symbol is usually a reciprocal of an SCS.

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: A method is provided. The method includes: sending one or more sets of bits of a first codeword on a first resource; sending one or more sets of bits of a second codeword on a first part of a second resource; sending one or more sets of bits of the first codeword on a second part of the second resource; receiving feedback indicating the first codeword is decoded successfully; and terminating the sending of the one or more sets of bits of the first codeword in response to the feedback.

Abstract: Provided are sensing communication method, apparatus, and system. An apparatus such as a central device can broadcast or multi-cast or unicast query message(s), so that other apparatus(es) such as one or more sensing devices can obtain the query message(s) and respond with sensing result(s) in response to the obtained query message(s). Query may be conducted for one or more rounds. In a round, the query messages can be of different levels, and as a result, more flexible and detailed query would be achieved. Moreover, query may be conducted for several rounds, and the apparatus may broadcast or multi-cast or unicast query messages of different levels in several rounds, so that other apparatus(es) can respond with sensing result(s) in response to the obtained query messages in several rounds, where a low level/coarse level query message is for initial query, and a high level query message is for subsequent fine grained query.