Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for paging technologies for mobile-terminated, small-data transmissions.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may attempt to access an edge data network. The UE generates a first credential based on a second credential, the second credential generated for a procedure between the UE and a cellular network, generating an identifier corresponding to the first credential, and generates a multi-access edge computing (MEC) authorization parameter. The UE then transmits an application registration request message to a server associated with an edge data network, the application registration request message including an indication of the first credential, the identifier corresponding to the first credential and the first authorization parameter. The UE then receives an authentication accept message or an authentication reject message from the server associated with the edge data network.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for technologies for mobile-terminated, small-data transmissions in wireless networks.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform authentication procedures for direct non-access stratum (NAS) connections in a network.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured to receive a first cumulative acknowledgement (ACK) from a protocol stack of the UE at a first time, store the first cumulative ACK in a queue, receive a second cumulative ACK from the protocol stack at a second time, wherein the second time occurs after the first time, store the second cumulative ACK in the queue, discard the first cumulative ACK from the queue based on the second cumulative ACK being received after the first cumulative ACK and encapsulate the second cumulative ACK to form a radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) that is to be transmitted over the air.

Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE generates a first information for the UE for transmission to a network device. The first information is associated with a small data transmission (SDT) procedure in an inactive state of the UE. The UE obtains a first configuration information from the network device. The first configuration information is determined with reference to the first information. The UE determines whether to perform the SDT procedure in the inactive state according to the first configuration information. The UE, in response to determining to perform the SDT procedure in the inactive state, performs the SDT procedure in the inactive state according to the first configuration information.

Abstract: To accommodate a mix of high frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers, a protocol stack may include a radio link control (RLC) entity that allows configuration of status reporting control parameters on per carrier, or per subcarrier spacing. Alternatively, a protocol stack may include two RLC entities, one for handling high frequency carriers, and another for handling lower frequency carriers. (High frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers may be distinguished based on a frequency threshold.) Furthermore, a user equipment may transmit (to the network) an indication of its L2 buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling, to ensure the UE's L2 buffer does not overrun. Alternatively, the UE may indicate that it can support a percentage of a maximum buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling so that the UE's buffer occupancy does not exceed the percentage.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for secure random access in wireless communication systems.

Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving request for scheduling assistance from a base station, wherein the request for scheduling assistance comprises scheduling configuration to be applied to a set of flows of a scheduled terminal on an application layer; informing the scheduled terminal of the scheduling configuration; receiving scheduling assistance information from the scheduled terminal, wherein the scheduling assistance information is generated by the scheduled terminal based on the set of flows of the scheduled terminal on the application layer; and transmitting the scheduling assistance information to the base station.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit an indication of a scaling factor parameter to use for uplink (UL) data compression (UDC) operations, receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration for UDC parameters to configure UDC data radio bearers (DRBs), associate the scaling factor parameter with configured UDC DRBs and calculating a maximum uplink data rate for the configured UDC DRBs in dependence on the scaling factor parameter, and perform UDC for UL packets in dependence on the calculated maximum uplink data rate.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment (UE) providing an indication of user consent to a network for access to UE information. The UE may perform operations including transmitting an indication of user consent to a first network. The user consent corresponds to a network function acquiring UE information. The operations also include transmitting the UE information to the first network and establishing a connection with a second network. The network function performs operations related to establishing the connection between the UE and the second network using the UE information.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to establish and utilize NAS-X connections between a device and a network function of a network.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a first uplink grant having a first priority, generate, by a medium access control (MAC) layer, a first MAC protocol data unit (PDU) comprising first data, deliver the first MAC PDU to a physical (PHY) layer, transmit, via a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), the first data using resources identified in the first uplink grant, receive a second uplink grant having a second priority, wherein a corresponding PUSCH duration of the first and second uplink grants overlap and wherein the second priority is higher than the first priority, generate a second MAC protocol data unit (PDU) comprising second data corresponding to the second uplink grant, deliver the second MAC PDU to the PHY layer of the UE, cancel the transmission of the first data and transmit the second data using resources identified in the second uplink grant via the PUSCH.

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and communications for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) (e.g., a wireless communication network that includes a satellite network component). A user equipment (UE) may receive a request for capability information of the UE and in response, transmit a message indicating the capability information of the UE, wherein the capability information includes HARQ disablement information indicating whether the UE supports disabled HARQ feedback.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for scheduling requests with considerations of unused transmission occasions.

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for enabling inter-user equipment (UE) coordination (IUC) using media access control (MAC) control elements (CE). A first UE may send an IUC request to a second UE, and the second UE may respond with a MAC CE that includes IUC information. The IUC information may indicated one or more wireless resources that the first UE may use to communicate with the second UE. The IUC information may also include a time-domain validity for wireless resources, which may include one or more durations of time the wireless resources may be used for communication. The first UE may also implement a latency bound during which the second UE is to respond with the IUC information. In some implementations, discontinuous reception (DRX) may be used by the first and second UEs, and DRX active times of the UEs may be modified or configured to facilitate IUC.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to join a standalone non-public network (SNPN). The receives SNPN information from one or more broadcast messages transmitted from a base station serving as an onboarding base station for the SNPN, determines whether the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE based on the SNPN information and UE SNPN information stored at the UE and onboards the UE to the SNPN when it is determined that the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE.

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for discarding packet data units (PDUs).

Abstract: An application layer in a device, a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer in the device, and/or a media access control (MAC) layer in the device may determine that wireless communication resources allocated to the device need to be adjusted. The determination may be in response to detecting that a quality of the wireless connection of the device has deteriorated, or it may be based on advance knowledge of information pertaining to an application layer payload in the device. In response to the determination the device may transmit, in a MAC Control Element (MAC CE) to a base station, a request for an adjustment of the allocated wireless communication resources. The adjustment may lead to a temporary boost of resources for a limited period of time or to a persistent update of the allocated wireless communication resources.

Abstract: A transmitting device is configured to transmit, to a second device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) comprising a plurality of MAC subPDUs, each MAC subPDU comprising at least one of a subheader, a MAC service data unit (SDU) or a MAC control element (CE), receive, from the second device, feedback indicating that the MAC PDU was received incorrectly, determine that a partial transmission scheme criteria is satisfied, transmit, to the second device, an indication that the partial transmission scheme is to be used to retransmit the MAC PDU and retransmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU using the partial transmission scheme.