Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced operation for transmission power operation. A method may include receiving, from a network element, a configuration to transmit an indication of an uplink transmission adjustment to the network element. The method may also include determining an existence of overlapping of uplink transmissions to the network element. The method may further include transmitting, in response to the determination of the existence of overlapping of uplink transmissions, the indication to the network element. In addition, the method may include performing, in response to the determination of the existence of overlapping of uplink transmissions, at least one of the uplink transmission adjustment of the uplink transmission to the network element or an uplink scheduling adjustment.

Abstract: A method comprises causing a message to be transmitted from a communications device to a transmission reception point during a random access procedure. The message comprises information identifying a plurality of different beam directions. The method further comprises receiving a response to the message from a plurality of different beam directions.

Abstract: Techniques of determining whether to hand over a user equipment to a new base station include requesting power state information from a neighbouring base to see if the power state of the neighbouring BS is sufficient to serve a UE unable to be served by the current BS due to being in a minimum power mode, DL average power control Region #2. For example, when one BS enters DL average power control Region #2, the BS starts to coordinate with its neighbouring BSs to determine whether the neighbouring BSs are not in Region #2 and exchange segments information. The BS coordinates with UEs at a cell-edge to know if switching the UEs at the cell-edge to neighbouring BS(s) can improve their QoS (throughput).

Abstract: A method includes determining, by a user device in a wireless network, at least two physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) allocations overlapping in time domain and corresponding to at least two PUSCH transmissions for use in transmitting at least one uplink control information (UCI); and mapping, by the user device, the at least one UCI to at least one of the following: one of the at least two PUSCH allocations; separately to each of the at least two PUSCH allocations; or across the at least two PUSCH allocations; wherein the mapping is based on at least one of: one or more configured or pre-defined rules, or at least one an indication received by the user device from a network node, and wherein each of the at least two PUSCH allocations includes resources allocated to the user device for a PUSCH transmission.

Abstract: There are provided measures for controlled terminal-initiated beam management. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from an access network entity, information for selecting candidate beams out of a plurality of beams, receiving, from said access network entity, at least one beam reporting triggering condition, determining, based on said information for selecting candidate beams out of said plurality of beams, that at least one candidate beam fulfils one of said at least one beam reporting triggering condition, and transmitting, to the access network entity, an indication that said at least one candidate beam fulfils said one of said at least one beam reporting triggering condition.

Abstract: Measures are provided for controlled terminal-initiated beam management. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from an access network entity, information for selecting candidate beams from a plurality of beams, receiving, from said access network entity, at least one beam reporting triggering condition, selecting preferred beams from said plurality of beams based on a terminal-side optimization parameter, evaluating whether at least one preferred beam of said preferred beams was to be selected based on said information for selecting candidate beams, determining that at least one preferred beam which was to be selected based on said information for selecting candidate beams fulfills one of said at least one beam reporting triggering condition, and transmitting, towards said access network entity, an indication that said at least one preferred beam which was to be selected based on said information for selecting candidate beams fulfills said one of said at least one beam reporting triggering condition.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for handling expiry of at least one time alignment timer (TAT) of multiple timing advance groups (TAGs) associated with a serving cell. In an example method, the terminal device receives determines at least two TAGs for a serving cell, wherein the at least two TAGs comprise a primary TAG and a secondary TAG. The terminal device determines whether at least one TAT of the at least two TAGs has expired and maintain, based on determining that the at least one TAT has expired, one of the primary TAG and the secondary TAG. In this way, only a single TAG is maintained once the terminal device has single TAT/no TAT running removing ambiguities in RA procedure/UL signal transmissions. Since the network is aware of the TAT expiry, it knows behaviour of the terminal device and can act accordingly.

Abstract: In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for enabling multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) uplink (UL) transmission from a multi-panel user equipment (UE), a UE device may be caused to, determine simultaneous uplink (UL) transmission configuration information, the simultaneous UL transmission information including at least a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set and a second SRS resource set, transmit SRS according to the simultaneous UL transmission configuration information to at least a serving RAN node, receive at least one joint SRS resource indicator (SRI) from the serving RAN node, and perform at least one UL transmission based on the joint SRI and the simultaneous UL transmission configuration information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solution on cell off indication via DCI. In particular, a group common DCI format is used to indicate an activation/deactivation of the cell off for entering network energy saving mode. DCI in the group common DCI format may include separate bits for a first indication regarding the activation/deactivation of the cell off for entering network energy saving mode and a second indication regarding the activation/deactivation of cell DTX/DRX. Alternatively, the DCI may include common bits for the first and second indications with a flag to indicate which indication. In this way, the cell off for entering network energy saving mode can be indicated more efficiently.

Abstract: A method includes determining, by a user device in a wireless network, at least two physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) allocations overlapping in time domain and corresponding to at least two PUSCH transmissions for use in transmitting at least one uplink control information (UCI); and mapping, by the user device, the at least one UCI to at least one of the following: one of the at least two PUSCH allocations; separately to each of the at least two PUSCH allocations; or across the at least two PUSCH allocations; wherein the mapping is based on at least one of: one or more configured or pre-defined rules, or at least one an indication received by the user device from a network node, and wherein each of the at least two PUSCH allocations includes resources allocated to the user device for a PUSCH transmission.

Abstract: This specification describes a method comprising: receiving, at a user equipment, UE, and from a node of a cellular communications network, configuration information relating to an event-triggered channel state information, CSI, reporting mode. The method further comprises the UE, while operating in the event-triggered CSI reporting mode in accordance with the configuration information, responding to an occurrence of a pre-defined event by providing report information to the cellular communications network, wherein i) the pre-defined event is related to a change in a selection associated with a set of transmission reception points, TRPs, ii) the selection is performed by the UE based on measurements of one or more reference signals, and iii) the report information relates to the change in the selection associated with the set of TRPs.

Abstract: Described herein in at least one embodiment is a user equipment (UE), caused to: determine a first rank associated with a first beam set scheduled by one or more network nodes configured in a cell serving the UE for communication between the UE and the one or more network nodes, wherein the first beam set comprises one or more beams; report to the one or more network nodes that a second rank higher than the first rank is achievable by a second beam set, wherein the second beam set comprises one or more beams; and receive from the one or more network nodes a switching command to be scheduled on the reported second beam set instead of the first beam set.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to applying timing advance during random access procedure. The first apparatus transmits, to a first apparatus, a channel state information (CSI) report configuration comprising a first sub-configuration and a second sub-configuration; and receives, from the first apparatus and based at least in part on the first and second first priority reporting levels, a CSI report associated with at least one of the first sub-configuration or the second sub-configuration. Impacts to the other CSI reporting caused by introducing the sub-configuration would be minimized.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of limited buffer rate matching (LBRM) calculation for simultaneous multi-panel transmission. The method comprises: receiving, by a terminal device and from a network device, one or more maximum rank values for at least one BWP of one or more serving cells of the terminal device, wherein the one or more maximum rank values are associated with one or more PUSCH transmission schemes; determining, by the terminal device, based at least on the one or more maximum rank values, a maximum number of layers for LBRM; and determining, by the terminal device, a TBS for LBRM using the maximum number of layers.

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to configuration of uplink transmissions. An apparatus may transmit a first uplink transmission with a first uplink configuration and a second uplink transmission with a second uplink configuration. The first and second uplink transmissions may at least partially overlap. The first and second uplink configurations may comprise first and a second initial cyclic shifts, first and second orthogonal cover codes, first and second reference signal initializations, first and second scrambling sequence initialization, and/or first and second scrambling sequences for the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission, respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: determine whether CSI of at least one first sub-configuration of a CSI report configuration and CSI of at least one second sub-configuration of the CSI report configuration are associated to a CSI-RS resource; determine to transmit at least one indicator in the CSI of the at least one first sub-configuration, in response to the CSI of the at least one first sub-configuration and the CSI of the at least one second sub-configuration being associated to the CSI-RS resource; and determine to not transmit at least one indicator in the CSI of the at least one second sub-configuration, in response to the CSI of the at least one first sub-configuration and the CSI of the at least one second sub-configuration being associated to the CSI-RS resource.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for dynamic antenna port related configuration. The method comprises: receiving, at a terminal device and from a network device, a first indication of a plurality of subsets of antenna ports; and receiving, at the terminal device and from the network device, a second indication of disabling at least one of the plurality of subsets of antenna ports.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to applying timing advance during random access procedure. The first apparatus transmits, to a first apparatus, a channel state information (CSI) report configuration comprising a first sub-configuration and a second sub-configuration; and receives, from the first apparatus and based at least in part on the first and second first priority reporting levels, a CSI report associated with at least one of the first sub-configuration or the second sub-configuration. Impacts to the other CSI reporting caused by introducing the sub-configuration would be minimized.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, from a network, a channel state information report configuration including one or more sub-configurations, wherein a sub-configuration of the one or more sub-configurations is associated with at least one channel state information reference signal antenna port subset; determining, for a calculation of one or more channel state information quantities for the sub-configuration corresponding to or indicating the at least one channel state information reference signal antenna port subset, a hypothetical physical downlink shared channel by considering an antenna port restriction based on the at least one channel state information reference signal antenna port subset the sub-configuration corresponds to or indicates; and calculating the one or more channel state information quantities for the sub-configuration, based on the formed hypothetical physical downlink shared channel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising receiving a first information element indicating two transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receive a configuration, and determining an association between the two indicated TCI states and at least one physical uplink control channel resource group according to the configuration. The configuration causes the apparatus to determine the association between the two indicated TCI states and the at least one physical uplink control channel resource group to be one of the following: both of the two indicated TCI states are applicable to the at least one physical uplink control channel resource group; a first indicated TCI state of the two indicated TCI states is applicable to the at least one physical uplink control channel resource group; or a second indicated TCI state of the two indicated TCI states is applicable to the at least one physical uplink control channel resource group.