Abstract: A method by a wireless (110) device includes receiving, from a network node (160), one or more bandwidth pieces. The data scheduled in one of the one or more bandwidth pieces includes at least one complete transport block and control information corresponding to the at least one complete transport block. The method further includes transmitting the data based on the scheduling or control information.

Abstract: Synchronization signal and Physical Broadcast Channel, SS/PBCH, block management. A network node determines whether a network condition is met, signals to a communication terminal to apply a first detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined to be met, signals to the communication terminal to apply a second detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined as not met, and transmits SS/PBCH blocks according to the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method, based on whether the network condition is met. The communication terminal receives the signalling from the network node associated with the communication network, determines whether the indicated SS/PBCH block detection method is a first or a second SS/PBCH block detection method based on the received signalling, and applies, based on the determination, the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method for SS/PBCH block detection.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) being configured to receive a downlink (DL) information, determine a spatial association for an uplink (UL) transmission based on the DL information, and determine UL power control (PC) parameters based on the DL information.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving signaling based on evaluating Phase Tracking Reference Signaling, PTRS, associated to the signaling, wherein evaluating is based on assuming a power level of PTRS relative to associated data signaling based on the number or PTRS ports and/or transmission sources for the signaling indicated to the receiving radio node. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for switching control channel monitoring of search space set group. According to one or more embodiments, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: configure a wireless device with at least two search space set groups, SSSGs; configure the wireless device to switch control channel monitoring between the at least two SSSGs; and optionally cause transmission of signaling on the control channel in accordance with the configured switching of the control channel monitoring.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises determining a subset of a set of control channel elements (CCEs) to monitor within one or more frequency domain monitoring occasions. The subset of CCEs excludes any CCEs of the set of CCEs that partially or fully overlap one or more guard physical resource blocks (PRBs). The method comprises monitoring the determined subset of CCEs for one or more control channel candidates within the frequency domain monitoring occasion(s).

Abstract: In a multi-BPL scenario, some form of beam-related indication is desirable to provide assistance to the UE in setting its Rx spatial filtering configuration to receive PDSCH. The assistance to the UE is in the form of a certain indicator indicating a spatial QCL assumption between PDSCH DMRS antenna port(s) and DL RS (e.g., CSI-RS) antenna port(s), such as a preferred CSI-RS resource that was measured and reported previously.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for operating wireless communication devices (e.g., User Equipments (UEs)) as initiating and responding devices in a Frame-Based Equipment (FBE) New Radio (NR) Unlicensed (NR-U) network are disclosed. The proposed methods allow operating the NR-U network as an FBE system in a flexible manner that supports a wide range of deployments not limited to the UE operating as a responding device. In some embodiments, methods to operate UEs as initiating and responding devices in a FBE-based NR-U network are disclosed.

Abstract: A method is implemented in a wireless transceiver device arranged to operate in a cellular wireless communication network and capable of operating in an unlicensed spectrum where listen-before-talk is employed. The method includes determining a first parameter, for the unlicensed operation, indicative on provision of synchronisation signal blocks, and determining quasi-co-location, QCL, relationship between one or more synchronisation signal and physical broadcast channel, SS/PBCH, blocks each having a first index, by determining a second index for the one or more SS/PBCH blocks by applying a modulo operation on the first index, respectively, based on the first parameter, where the QCL relationship is determined to occur if the second indices coincide. A computer program for implementing the method in a wireless transceiver and such a transceiver are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method is performed by a wireless device for transmitting a Sounding Reference Signal, SRS. The method comprises receiving downlink control information triggering an aperiodic SRS transmission, and identifying a slot indicated by the downlink control information. If the slot indicated by the downlink control information is a downlink slot, the wireless device transmits the SRS in a slot that is not a downlink slot.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a radio node in the RAN, a new feedback indicator (NFI) that indicates whether acknowledgement signaling previously scheduled for transmission by the UE was received by the radio node. The acknowledgement signaling is associated with one or more first downlink (DL) hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processes. Such methods include, when the NFI indicates the acknowledgement signaling was not received by the RAN node, selecting a first HARQ codebook to be used for encoding the acknowledgement signaling together with further acknowledgement signaling associated with one or more second DL HARQ processes. Such methods include, using the selected first HARQ codebook, encoding the acknowledgement signaling and the further acknowledgement signaling to obtain first encoded information and transmitting the first encoded information to the radio node via an uplink (UL) channel.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring, in a network node of a wireless communication network, a reference signal resource. An example method comprises obtaining a combination of one or more components to be used for a reference signal resource, the one or more components being contained in one or more physical resource blocks of a slot; and indicating, to the one or more wireless devices, the combination of the one or more components in the one or more physical resource blocks that are to be used for the reference signal resource.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises monitoring a first search space set for a control channel candidate, receiving an indication to switch the search space set from a network node, and switching the search space set based on receiving the indication to switch the search space set. Switching the search space set comprises stopping the monitoring of the first search space set and starting monitoring a second search space set for the control channel candidate.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) comprises: transmitting, to the wireless device, an indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS; and transmitting CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device of receiving CSI-RS comprises: receiving an indication of a subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS associated with an antenna port; and receiving CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. In some embodiments, the indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS comprises a density value and a comb offset.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to, for example, a method performed by a UE for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UE selects for a Pcell, and/or a Scell, a search space slot within a slot group wherein the slot group is arranged in an X-slot group pattern, wherein the slot group is of a size of X-slots, and the X-slot group pattern is fixed relative to a reference time location and common for UEs operating PDCCH monitoring X slots. The UE further monitors the selected search space slot or slots for a control channel of the Pcell, and/or the Scell.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) performs multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. The UE receives a search space configuration from a network node. The UE determines a search space monitoring slot within a first X-slot group of a fixed pattern of X-slot groups based on a location of the first slot of type0 Common Search Space (CSS) monitoring occasions. The UE determines which one or more slot indices to monitor. The UE determines which one or more symbols to monitor within the determined one or more slot indices. The UE monitors the determined symbols within the determined slot indices for PDCCH.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a feedback radio node in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting feedback signalling representing an encoded sequence of bits, the encoded sequence of bits representing a sequence of feedback information bits, the sequence of feedback information bits comprising a plurality of subpatterns, each subpattern having a type of a set of types. The set of types has a first type and a second type, the subpatterns being ordered in the sequence according to their type. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including performing channel estimation based on received signaling, the channel estimation providing a channel estimate value for each subcarrier of a set of subcarriers. The received signaling covers a number NPRB of Physical Resource Blocks, PRB, in frequency domain, each PRB having a number NSC of subcarriers. The set of subcarriers has a number NSUB of subsets of subcarriers, subcarriers of the same subset being associated to the same PRB of the number NPRB of PRBs. The channel estimation associates different channel estimate values to different subcarriers of one or more of the NSUB subsets. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: Systems and methods related to partial interlace frequency domain resource allocations for uplink transmissions from a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving a resource allocation for an uplink transmission that allocates resources in one or more partially allocated interlaces and performing an uplink transmission on the allocated resources in the one or more partially allocated interlaces in accordance with the resource allocation. In this manner, a low-complexity approach to support flexible frequency domain resource allocation is provided. In addition, using this approach, an interlace may be shared by two or more wireless devices, which may increase spectral efficiency and reduce latency.

Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for flexible configuration of channel occupancy measurements in New Radio (NR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device configured to communicate with a network node is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a time-domain configuration for a channel occupancy measurement based on at least one configuration parameter where the time-domain configuration is independent of subcarrier spacing of at least one carrier on which the channel occupancy measurement is performed; and optionally perform the channel occupancy measurement based at least on the determined time-domain configuration.