Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for reporting successful handover related information and/or failure related information by a user equipment to a base station. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment, including indicating, in an indication message, availability of successful handover related information and/or availability of failure related information, and transmitting the successful handover related information and/or the failure related information to a base station (BS) in response to reception of a request message from the BS, wherein the request message is based on the indication message.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses, and media for indicating Listen Before Talk (LBT) failure. A method performed by a terminal device comprises determining whether at least one consistent Listen Before Talk, LBT, failure is triggered on a set of resources associated with a data transmission between a network device and the terminal device in Radio Resource Control (RRC) non-connected state; in accordance with a determination that at least one consistent LBT failure is triggered, generating an indication of the at least one consistent LBT failure for the data transmission in the RRC non-connected state; and transmitting the indication to the network device. In this way, the format and signaling of consistent LBT failure indication for data transmission in the RRC non-connected state is designed and the transmission of the indication can be performed in various state of the terminal device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for handling a service belonging to a multicast broadcast service (MBS) at a radio access network (RAN) node under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving information relating to one or more on-going MBS associated with a UE at one or more RAN nodes; and receiving configuration information from another RAN node, so that at least some or all of data relating to at least one of the one or more on-going MB S associated with the UE can be provided by the abovementioned another RAN node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a user equipment (UE) triggered secondary cell group (SCG) activation procedure in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method which may be performed by a UE includes: deciding whether to activate a SCG associated with a secondary node (SN), wherein the SCG has been deactivated; and in response to deciding to activate the SCG, triggering a random access (RA) procedure to the SN.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services. An exemplary method of the present application includes: receiving multicast and broadcast services (MBS) data associated with a user equipment (UE) in a first node, wherein the MBS data is delivered via a shared delivery mode in a wireless network; receiving, in the first node, handover acknowledge information from a second node, the handover acknowledge information indicating that a handover request associated with the UE is allowed; and determining, in the first node, whether to forward the MBS data to the second node by the first node, in response to receiving the handover acknowledge information from the second node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for exchanging configuration information regarding a multicast radio bearer (MRB) in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: obtaining capability information regarding one or more neighbor nodes in a RAN, the capability information regarding the one or more neighbor nodes is associated with a multicast broadcast service (MBS); determining, based on the capability information regarding the one or more neighbor nodes, configuration information regarding a MRB; and transmitting, to a another RAN node in a MR-DC scenario, the configuration information regarding the MRB, wherein the abovementioned another RAN node belongs to the one or more neighbor nodes.

Abstract: A wireless backhaul method, including: a wireless backhaul device generates a first F1AP message, maps the first F1AP message to a signaling-plane bearer of an LTE Uu interface, and sends the first F1AP message to a primary base station of the wireless backhaul device via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface. The primary base station obtains the first F1AP message via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface, encapsulates the first F1AP message into a first X2AP message, and sends the first X2AP message to a secondary base station of the wireless backhaul device. The secondary base station receives the first X2AP message and obtains the first F1AP message based on the first X2AP message.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a message identification method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment UE, a paging message sent by an access network device; determining, by the UE, a core network entity to which the paging message belongs in a plurality of core network entities serving the UE; and establishing, by the UE, a data connection to the core network entity to which the paging message belongs. According to the message identification method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of this application, the UE can connect to different core network entities.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node dual connectivity setup methods and communication apparatus. In one example method, a first IAB node sets up a first F1 interface with a primary donor node of the first IAB node. The first IAB node obtains an internet protocol (IP) address anchored at a secondary donor node connected to the first IAB node and/or configuration information of a serving cell, of the first IAB node, belonging to the secondary donor node. The first IAB node sends, to the secondary donor node, a request for setting up a second F1 interface with the secondary donor node, where the request includes the configuration information of the serving cell, of the first IAB node, belonging to the secondary donor node.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to communication methods in multi-rat dual connectivity, apparatus, and systems. In one example method, when a packet data convergence protocol sequence number (PDCP SN) length of a bearer is changed, a secondary node (SN) sends a PDCP SN length change indication to a master node (MN).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include: determining whether a user equipment (UE) in an RRC_IDLE state or RRC_INACTIVE state should enter an RRC_CONNECTED state for reception of at least one MBS session; and transmitting indication information for indicating whether the UE should enter the RRC_CONNECTED state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). An exemplary method can include: receiving configuration information indicating: receiving configuration information indicating a first data inactivity timer associated with MBS; and determining whether to transfer from a first radio resource control (RRC) state to a second RRC state at least based on the first data inactivity timer. Embodiments of the present application can avoid unnecessary RRC state transition of a user equipment (UE).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for relay transmission. The method is performed by a first UE. The method comprises activating a first timer after a first path to a second UE determined as failed; transmitting a first discovery message; and inactivating the first timer upon receipt of a first acceptation message responsive to the first discovery message.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) is provided. The method is performed by a first UE. The method includes receiving, from a NodeB, an acknowledge configuration indicating an HARQ scheme of the first UE and uplink resource for the HARQ scheme; determining whether an acknowledgement for a data block associated with a first downlink control information (DCI) is to be transmitted according to the HARQ scheme.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) failure recovery mechanism and a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) mechanism for conditional handover (CHO) and DAPS procedures.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for mobility robustness optimization. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: performing one of the following handover procedures associated with a target cell: a handover procedure in response to receiving a handover command, a CHO procedure in response to meeting a CHO execution condition, and a DAPS handover procedure in response to receiving a DAPS handover command; accessing the target cell; storing assistant information related to a successful handover to the target cell; and transmitting the assistant information related to the successful handover to the target cell in response to a trigger condition for transmitting assistant information being met. In addition, the target BS may transmit the assistant information related to the successful handover to the source BS over the Xn interface.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are re-lated to a method and apparatus for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). According an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receiving conditional handover (CHO) configuration information, wherein the CHO configuration information indicates a set of execution conditions for a set of candidate cells, each execution condition being associated with a candidate cell; and executing a CHO procedure to a target cell of the set of candidate cells in response to at least one of the set of execution conditions is met, wherein the target cell is determined based on the set of execution conditions and MBS information associated with CHO.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for wireless communication. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: establishing a RRC connection between a first UE and a BS via a second UE, wherein a PC5 RRC connection between the first UE and the second UE has been established and an RRC connection between the second UE and the BS has been established; receiving, from either the first UE or the BS at a second UE, a first data; determining a destination of the first data; and transmitting the first data to the destination of the first data in response to the destination of the first data being not the second UE. In addition, the size information for each packet may be indicated in the header of an adaptation layer in response to multiple packets from the different UE bearers can be multiplexed to one PDU of the adaptation layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a network slice service area identifier from a serving access network device corresponding to a serving cell in which the terminal device is located, where the network slice service area identifier is used to indicate an area served by a network slice; determining, by the terminal device, a target cell based on network slice configuration information and the network slice service area identifier, where the network slice configuration information includes a correspondence among a network slice, an area, and a service; and accessing, by the terminal device, the target cell.

Abstract: An information transmission method includes: A terminal device sends first information to a network device, where the first information includes information indicating that a radio link failure occurs between the terminal device and a first cell, or the first information includes information indicating that beam failure recovery occurs between the terminal device and the first cell; and the first information further includes information about a resource; and the network device performs mobility robustness optimization based on the first information.