Abstract: A receiver, e.g. an IoT device, receives and processes a radio signal. The radio signal has at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band includes a first signal, the second frequency band includes a second signal, and each of the first signal and the second signal includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of subframes (M-subframe). One or more of the subframes of the first signal include connecting information allowing a receiver to establish a connection with a wireless communication system. All of the subframes of the second signal are free of any connecting information. The receiver establishes the connection with the wireless communication system using the connecting information, and, after having established the connection with the wireless communication system and responsive to band information indicating the second frequency band, operate in the second frequency band.

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: In a communication system, a transmitter is configured to change a transmission characteristic used for the communication with a receiver, wherein a receiver is configured to determine a reception quality of a communication link between the transmitter and the receiver and to transmit a feedback information to the transmitter indicating whether a reception quality has changed or in which direction the reception quality has changed, or whether a transmission characteristic should be maintained, wherein the transmitter is configured to further change the transmission characteristic used for the communication with the receiver in dependence on the feedback information received from the receiver.

Abstract: A network node configured for operating in a wireless communication network is configured or pre-configured with configuration instructions or is to receive configuration instructions, the configuration instructions related to an action that causes the network to disconnect from the wireless communication network. The network node is to receive, from the wireless communication network a trigger signal comprising information to perform the action and to perform the action based on the trigger signal. The configuration instructions further relate to one or more of a reconnection action to reconnect to the wireless communication network, a deregister action, e.g., an access barring, an initiation of a cell-search, a normal handover and/or a conditional handover.

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 receiver receives a radio signal from a transmitter of a wireless communication system serving a plurality of receivers. The radio signal includes for the plurality of receivers served by the transmitter a plurality of control messages and a redundant control message for at least one of the control messages. The receiver detects a control message from the radio signal, and, responsive to detecting the control message, the receiver detects a signal from another location in the radio signal. The receiver determines the detected control message as a specific control message for the receiver based on the signal detected from the other location.

Abstract: A wireless communication network, has one or more first user devices, UEs, and one or more second user devices, UEs. The wireless communication network is to configure the first UE with one or more bandwidth parts, BWPs, and with a set of control resource sets, CORESETs, within the BWP in the same slot, and the wireless communication network is to configure the second UE with only a subset from the set of CORESETs.

Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver [e.g., UE] of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message [e.g., in a first slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n] [e.g., comprising a first control information or control configuration], wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a second control message [e.g., in a second slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n+koff??] [e.g., comprising a second control information or control configuration], wherein the second control message is linked [e.g., refers] to the first control message by an identifier, ID [e.g., DCI/base grant ID], or indication, wherein one out of the first control message, the first control message and the second control message together, the second control message, grant or assign a resource to the transceiver for a communication of the transceiver.

Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.

Abstract: A base station for a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of logical radio access networks, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks, and the base station is configured to selectively control the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and/or to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, wherein, during a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks (e.g.

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 user equipment for a mobile communication network is provided. The mobile communication network has a radio access network including a plurality of cells and being configured to serve the user equipment within a cell. To receive a data packet from the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to receive a plurality of different versions of the data packet transmitted by the radio access network to the user equipment in parallel via different physical resources. To provide a data packet to the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to provide a plurality of different versions of the data packet and to transmit the plurality of different versions of the data packet to the radio access network in parallel via different physical resources.

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.

Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system for serving a plurality of user equipments is provided. A coverage area of the transceiver includes one zone or a plurality of zones, each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool. The transceiver is configured to signal to less than all user equipments assigned to a certain zone to return to the transceiver a zone occupancy report for the certain zone. The zone occupancy report indicates an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the certain zone.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between a transmitting entity and one or more receiving entities of the wireless communication network. Responsive to receiving a transmission from the transmitting entity and to relaying the transmission towards the receiving entity, the UE is to transmit a feedback to the transmitting entity, the feedback indicating a successful and/or non-successful receipt of the transmission at the receiving entity.

Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acta as a relay UE so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between a transmitting entity and one or more receiving entities of the wireless communication network. The UE differentiates a transmission, which is received from the transmitting entity, between a first transmission to be relayed to a receiving entity and a second transmission that is intended for the UE. The UE differentiates the received transmission by control information associated with the transmission and/or resources on which the transmission and/or the associated control information is received.

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 network, acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between one or more remote UEs and a destination of the wireless communication network, wherein a connection between the remote UE and the destination comprises one or more sidelinks, each sidelink associated with a predefined or negotiated Quality-of-Service, QoS. The UE is connected via a sidelink to one or more of the following: one or more of the remote UEs, the destination, one or more further relay UEs. The UE determines a status of the sidelink with regard to the predefined or negotiated QoS, and sends the status of the sidelink towards a network entity, like a base station, of the wireless communication network.

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.