Abstract: In the field of wireless communication systems or networks, the design of resource pools as they may be used in sidelink communications among users of the wireless communication system, for example in V2X applications, is described. In particular, an improved resource pool design, for example for resource pools to be used in sidelink communications in V2X services in view of the advantages defined by the NR 5G standard, is presented.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a novel form of communication within a cellular wireless communication network. One aspect of the invention concerns a User Equipment for a cellular network, wherein the UE inter alia includes a first interface for UE-to-Basestation communication configured to communicate with a base station of the cellular network and a second interface for UE-to-UE communication configured to communicate with one or more other UEs of a UE-Group to which the UE belongs. According to the invention the UE is configured to receive via its first interface configuration data for configuring its second interface, and to coordinate, via the second interface, a communication within the UE Group.

Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system including a plurality of user devices, UEs. Responsive to a trigger for a transmission, the UE obtains a candidate resource set for the transmission by selecting resources for the transmission within a selection window following the trigger. The UE selects the resources by taking into consideration sensing results obtained by the UE during a sensing window preceding the trigger, and the sensing results indicate whether certain resources are available or unavailable for the transmission. The UE receives from one or more further UEs one or more reports or assistance information messages, AIMs, including resource allocation related assistance information, and considers a received report or AIM for selecting resources for the transmission when one or more predefined conditions are met.

Abstract: A radio transmitter apparatus for transmitting a data transmission for at least one radio tag of a plurality of radio tags is described. The data transmission includes a first part and a second part including data to be transmitted to the at least one radio tag. The radio transmitter apparatus processes the second part of the data transmission such that the data is free of a pattern representing a start indicator for any of the plurality of radio tags.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The UE is to communicate with the wireless communication system via at least one relay UE, the UE and the relay UE communicating over a sidelink interface. When communicating with the wireless communication system via the relay UE, e.g., when starting and/or during a communication, the UE is to establish a network control layer in its protocol stack, and the network control layer is to provide some control information.

Abstract: A reader device for communicating with at least one radio tag of a plurality of radio tags is described. The reader device is connectable to a radio access network, RAN, entity of a wireless communication system and to one or more or all of the plurality of radio tags. Responsive to one or more conditions, the reader device operates in accordance with a radio tag mode, e.g. an A-IoT mode, in which a data transfer between the radio device and the at least one radio tag is enabled.

Abstract: A user equipment for communication over a cellular network is configured for simultaneously communicating with one or more cells of first and second nodes of the cellular network, and to methods for operating such user equipments for communication over a cellular network. Furthermore, a user equipment for communication over a cellular network includes a plurality of base stations which are connected over a xhaul network of the cellular network to a core network of the cellular network, wherein the user equipment is configured for communicating with one of the base stations of the cellular network, which is used as a serving base station, or for communicating with more of the base stations of the cellular network simultaneously, which respectively are used as serving base stations, and to methods for operating such user equipments for communication over a cellular network.

Abstract: A user device, UE, is described which monitors a plurality of beams for a predefined time period for one or more predefined event criteria and determines a meeting of the one or more predefined event criteria using a Layer1 measurement. The one or more of the predefined event criteria include one or more of the following: LTM2, LTM3, LTM4, LTM5. Responsive to meeting one or more of the predefined event criteria, the UE provides a measurement report. The UE sends the measurement report to a network entity in case a leaving condition is met, the measurement report having a CRI and/or a SSBRI.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a user device, UE, of a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network using one or more Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, AI/ML, models for one or more use cases, wherein the UE is configured or preconfigured with a plurality of AI/ML models for performing one or more certain operations, and wherein, dependent on one or more criteria, for performing the one or more certain operations, the UE is to switch from a first AI/ML model to a second AI/ML model, or deactivate one or more of the plurality of AI/ML models, or switch from a current operation mode to a new operation mode.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more transmitting UEs using a sidelink, supports a certain number of HARQ processes, and buffers one or more transmissions for each HARQ process. During a unicast communication with a transmitting UE using the sidelink, the UE receives from the transmitting UE a transmission during a transmission time interval, the transmission associated to control data, e.g. SCI, including a HARQ process ID, buffers the received transmission for the HARQ process, and combines the buffered transmissions prior to decoding. In case a successfully identified transmission is not buffered, the UE indicates to the transmitting UE that the transmission is not buffered at the UE.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The UE is a sidelink, SL, UE, and is to communicate with one or more further SL-UEs over a sidelink, SL, using more than one antenna or antenna element. The UE is served by a base station of the wireless communication network. The UE is to be assisted by the base station for one or more beam management procedures.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication is disclosed which communicates with one or more radio devices using a radio signal comprising a plurality of time blocks in a time domain. The radio signal includes a plurality of time blocks used for a communication between the UE and the one or more radio devices, and one or more additional time blocks not used for a communication between the UE and the one or more radio devices. The UE communicates with one or more of the radio devices using two or more of the time blocks, the two or more time blocks being offset by at least one of the additional time blocks of the radio signal.

Abstract: A radio device for a wireless communication network includes a backscatter transmitter for transmitting a signal using a backscattered signal, and to at least one or more groups of a plurality of different device groups.

Abstract: Embodiments provide an apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a plurality of Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, entities, each of the plurality of HARQ entities configured to operate a HARQ process associated with one of a plurality of HARQ behaviors, the plurality of HARQ behaviors being different, and/or a Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, entity configured to operate a plurality of HARQ processes, each HARQ processes associated with one of a plurality of HARQ behaviors, the plurality of HARQ behaviors being different, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a control information from a transceiver in a wireless communication system, the control information transmitted over a radio channel of the wireless communication system, the control information including a Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, identifier identifying one HARQ behavior out of the plurality of HARQ behaviors or one HARQ process out of the plurality of HARQ processes, the one HARQ process associated with a HARQ behavior.

Abstract: A receiver is configured is configured to receive a data signal, the data signal having at least one data signal block, the data signal block having a predefined duration in the time domain, a number of symbols in the time domain and a bandwidth in the frequency domain, wherein the data signal block is received over a plurality of transmission intervals, wherein a length of one transmission interval is shorter than the duration of the data signal block so that a subset of the symbols of the data signal block is received over one transmission interval, and wherein the receiver includes a signal processing device configured to process the symbols of the data signal block which have been received over one transmission interval.

Abstract: A receiver is configured to receive and process a radio signal. The radio signal includes a first frequency band including a first signal, the first signal including a plurality of TDD-frames. The receiver is configured to evaluate reception of downlink data to obtain evaluation data. The receiver is further configured to transmit the evaluation data in a second frequency band outside of the first frequency band.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, like a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, network, is described. The UE has a plurality of UE capabilities, the UE capabilities indicating functions the UE is capable to perform. The UE is to inform on one or more parts of the plurality of UE capabilities using one or more identification values, e.g., hash values.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a first RACH event associated with a first slice, the UE is to determine whether there is an ongoing RACH procedure triggered by a second RACH event associated with a second slice. In case of an ongoing RACH procedure, the UE is to prohibit an additional RACH procedure triggered by the first RACH event associated with the first slice, and/or suspend the additional RACH procedure for a certain time, and/or stop the ongoing RACH procedure and start the additional RACH procedure, and/or modify the ongoing RACH procedure, and/or modify the ongoing RACH procedure to start the additional RACH procedure.