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 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 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: 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: 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: 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 performing MIMO transmissions are described. Retransmission schemes are described for MIMO transmissions. In an example, a transmitter node obtains a plurality of packets to be transmitted to an intended receiver node over a plurality of MIMO layers. A set of one or more cross-block check blocks is generated, where the set of one or more cross-block check blocks being is using a plurality of bits selected from across two or more packets to be transmitted over respective two or more MIMO layers. The set of one or more cross-block check blocks is transmitted over one or more MIMO layers.

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.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining mapping relationship information, where the mapping relationship information indicates a mapping relationship between at least one link and at least one group of timing values, and each group of timing values includes at least one transmit timing value and/or at least one receive timing value; determining, based on a scheduled target link and the mapping relationship information, a timing value corresponding to the target link; and performing communication through the target link based on the timing value.

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: According to the present disclosure, there are provided methods and devices for 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 speed, and thereby enable solutions having different signaling details and capability requirements.

Abstract: A reference signaling scheme is provided that is based on the use of a Zadoff Chu sequence with cyclic repetition, optionally code division multiplexing precoding, together with frequency domain spectral shaping (FDSS). A specific pulse shape design for the FDSS part of the reference signal scheme in some embodiments involves the use of a raised cosine pulse raised to the power of ?. The new solution for generating reference signals has a Low peak average power ratio that matches the PAPR of SC-OQAM, good channel estimation performance, and the ability to implement CDM in the frequency domain to increase multiplexing gain.

Abstract: Provided is a method in a user equipment, the method comprising: as part of a HARQ process having a HARQ process ID, transmitting an initial grant-free transmission and K?1 repetitions, where K>=2. A pre-defined mapping of the HARQ process ID to at least one resource available for grant-free transmission is a function of K.

Abstract: Data heterogeneity has been shown to reduce the convergence speed and model accuracy in existing federated learning (FL) and distributed learning (DL) based artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) model training processes. In some embodiments, a group of devices participating in an FL or DL based AI/ML model training process is divided into clusters, e.g., based on similarities in their data class distributions, and each device is configured with a cascaded AI/ML model that includes a first AI/ML sub-model and a second AI/ML sub-model that are cascaded. For each device, one of the cascaded sub-models is a common AI/ML sub-model that is common to all devices in the group, and the other sub-model is a cluster-specific AI/ML sub-model that is common to the cluster that the device has been assigned to within the group of devices. A multi-stage training process for the cascaded AI/ML model is also provided.

Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure enable a network to account for impacts of digital transmit and receive precoding at the user equipment (UE) side in the presence of UE self-interference that may occur during full duplex (FD) operation. Some aspects of the present disclosure include joint downlink (DL) node selection or beam selection, or both, and UE self-interference emulation, so that the UE is enabled with FD operation that includes receiving from one node, but transmitting towards another node. When compared with the case where the UE receives from, and transmits, to a same node, because when two separate nodes are involved and the two nodes are more physically separated, the chance of achieving higher cross-link isolation, and hence FD transmission, is higher.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide initial access procedures that allow a UE to become connected to a non-terrestrial transmit-receive point, such as a device in a high altitude platform system. Through receipt of a positioning reference signal, a UE may determine its own location coordinates. Then, using the location coordinates, the UE may select a beam using a set of parameters associated, in a table, with the location coordinates. The UE may then use the selected beam to carry out an initial access procedure with the non-terrestrial transmit-receive point.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application provide methods and device for use in User Equipment (UE) cooperation. UE cooperation may include the cooperating UEs (CUEs) forwarding traffic to or from one or more target UEs (TUEs) with redundant signal transmissions or receptions. Methods involve a base station transmitting configuration information to at least one cooperative user equipment (CUE) and to a target user equipment (TUE). The configuration information includes an indication of resources for a sidelink (SL) transmission and a redundancy parameter for the SL transmission. The SL transmission is a transmission for the at least one CUE to forward a packet intended for the TUE. The base station also transmits the packet intended for the TUE, to a plurality of UEs comprising the at least one CUE and the TUE.