Abstract: Methods, communications device, infrastructure equipment and circuitry for performing a sense before transmission (SBT) process before a transmission and adjusting transmission parameters based on the SBT process. A device monitors for transmissions in a monitoring period prior to its own transmission and if it detects one or more transmissions in the monitoring period adjusts the transmission parameters for its own transmission to reduce a level of CLI at another device.

Abstract: A communication device of the present disclosure includes a control unit. The control unit determines whether or not a digital interference canceller is applicable to a reception signal received in in-band full-duplex communication. In a case where it is determined that the digital interference canceller is not applicable, the control unit determines whether or not to apply the digital interference canceller to the reception signal. In a case where it is determined to apply the digital interference canceller, the control unit determines to perform processing for applying the digital interference canceller with another communication device with which the in-band full-duplex communication is performed.

Abstract: Methods, communications devices, infrastructure equipment, and circuitry are provided for determining whether to enable frequency hopping for a given portion of an uplink transmission. It is determined whether to perform frequency hopping for a plurality of portions of a uplink transmission to be transmitted in one or more uplink sub-bands of the one or more slots. The determination may be made, for example, based on a threshold sub-band width or a semi-static configuration. As such, frequency hopping may be performed only for a portion of an uplink transmission, or not at all.

Abstract: A terminal device is time-synchronized with a communication device at a synchronization boundary. The terminal device includes a wireless communication transceiver and a control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to transmit determination information for determining whether or not to extend a channel occupancy time (COT) via a wireless transceiver, receive information regarding the COT, and perform uplink transmission on the basis of the information regarding the COT that has been received. In a case where the information regarding the COT does not indicate extension of the COT, the COT ends at least by a first sync boundary. In a case where the information regarding the COT indicates extension of the COT, the COT ends after the first sync boundary and by the end of a second sync boundary that occurs following the first sync boundary.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The hardware processor receives one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) via the transceiver. The one PDCCH schedules a plurality of physical shared channels in one or more carriers or one or more slots. The one PDCCH and the plurality of physical shared channels are transmitted to the terminal device. The plurality of physical shared channels is a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) or a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCH).

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device configured to communicate with infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface. The method includes receiving, through the wireless access interface, one or more synchronisation signal block (SSB) burst sets, each burst set comprising one or more SSBs received on one or more respective beams. The wireless access interface comprises a plurality of slots including a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols for carrying the SSBs in the burst set, wherein one or more of the OFDM symbols are SBFD OFDM symbols and one or more are non-SBFD OFDM symbols. The method further comprises determining a signal quality for each beam based on a measurement of one or more SSBs received on the beam, including adjusting the signal quality measurement according to whether the SSBs are received in the SBFD OFDM symbols or the non-SBFD OFDM symbols.

Abstract: A communication device that performs sidelink communication with a transmission device, and includes: a control unit that performs a setting related to a configured grant on the basis of first setting information; and a reception unit that receives transmission data transmitted from the transmission device through the sidelink communication on the basis of the setting related to the configured grant.

Abstract: A method for operating a communications device involves receiving a control signal from a wireless network to indicate resource allocation for uplink or downlink transmissions. The allocation covers a set of contiguous resource units, including uplink and downlink frequency sets with multiple resource units. The control signal, configured with bits, specifies resource allocation for uplink transmissions based on the total number of uplink resource units or for downlink transmissions based on the total number of downlink resource units. The device determines the allocation from the control signal and transmits uplink data or receives downlink data accordingly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method, performed in a radio network node, for configuring resources for sidelink reference signals for positioning. The method comprises transmitting, to a wireless device, control information associated with a sidelink positioning procedure. The control information is indicative of an allocation of resources for transmission of sidelink reference signals for positioning by a plurality of wireless devices participating in the sidelink positioning procedure.

Abstract: Method of operating a communications device receiving from a wireless access network a configured grant of physical uplink shared channel, CG-PUSCH, resources of a wireless access interface which includes physical resources of an unlicensed frequency bandwidth. The CG-PUSCH resources provide flexible transmission occasions to transmit uplink transport blocks as a plurality of K repetitions. Each repetition is one of a plurality of redundancy versions, the opportunities of the CG-PUSCH are accessible for transmission according to a contention access procedure. The procedure is performed to transmit the uplink transport blocks as a plurality of K repetitions in the transmission occasions. For each uplink transport block, uplink control information, UCI, is transmitted. The UCI relates to the CG. The CG-UCI provides an indication for the transmitted K plurality of repetitions and is multiplexed into a subset of the transmitted K plurality of repetitions.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is one of a plurality of communication apparatuses including at least a transmission device and a reception device, and includes a determination unit that makes a determination regarding recovery control of a communication link between the transmission device and the reception device based on information on a change in a geographical relative position between the transmission device or the reception device and a third object. The information on the change in the geographical relative position is information acquired by sensing performed by the transmission device, the reception device, another communication apparatus different from the transmission device and the reception device, or the third object.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication. The information processing device further includes a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication based on the information about the sidelink communication.

Abstract: A communication device includes a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a physical control signal used to control a physical layer of the communication device, the physical control signal including beam information about a beam used for communication between the communication device and the terminal device; and a communication control unit that controls a beam used for communication between the communication device and the terminal device based on the beam information.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each cell, each beam, each component carrier, each bandwidth part (BWP), each user equipment (UE), or each HARQ process.

Abstract: A communication device includes a control unit. The control unit receives an instruction to perform channel sensing in an unlicensed band, from a base station apparatus. The control unit performs the channel sensing in a channel occupancy time in which the instruction is received. The control unit transmits second uplink control information that can be multiplexed with first uplink control information and that indicates a result of the channel sensing, to the base station apparatus, in the channel occupancy time.

Abstract: A terminal device (2) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (203). The control unit (203) acquires, from a base station apparatus (1), information about a signal waveform for use, of a plurality of signal waveforms including a single carrier signal, the signal waveform for use being used for downlink communication with the base station apparatus (1), the information being transmitted by using a predetermined signal waveform of the plurality of signal waveforms. The control unit (203) performs the downlink communication with the base station apparatus (1) by using the signal waveform for use, on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A method of receiving data at a communications device from a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving downlink control information indicating an allocation of downlink communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network for receiving downlink data, the downlink control information also providing an indication of a relative priority associated with the received downlink data, and receiving the downlink data from the allocated downlink communications resources.

Abstract: A method includes operating in accordance with a configured grant, CG, mode of operation, the CG mode of operation comprising determining a sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface and transmitting signals to the wireless communications network in at least one instance of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface, transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network in two or more instances of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface as a plurality of repetitions of the uplink data, and transmitting one or more of a plurality of versions of uplink control information, CG-UCI, to the wireless communications network, each version of CG-UCI being associated with a plurality of instances of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface.

Abstract: A wireless communication device performs sidelink communication by a plurality of the wireless communication devices. The wireless communication device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires determination information for determining a plurality of master devices that communicate with a base station in sidelink communication. The control unit determines whether or not an own device is one of the plurality of master devices based on the determination information.

Abstract: A method of transmitting control information, the method comprising selecting third uplink communication resources for the transmission of first control information having a first priority and second control information having a second priority different from the first priority, selecting a first subset of the third uplink communication resources for the transmission of the first control information, selecting a second subset of the third uplink communication resources for the transmission of the second control information, independently encoding the first control information and the second control information, and transmitting to an infrastructure equipment the encoded first control information using the first subset of the third uplink communication resources and the encoded second control information using the second subset of the third uplink communication resources.