Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus of uplink transmission. An exemplary method includes: receiving information indicating one or more PUCCH resources which are expected to be transmitted on a slot; and determining a number of PUCCH resources to be transmitted on the slot from at least one PUCCH resource determined according to the one or more PUCCH resources and an UCI multiplexing mode, wherein the number of PUCCH resources is equal to or smaller than a configured or predefined maximum number and there is no overlapping PUCCH resources associated with a same beam in the number of PUCCH resources.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for support of LTM are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a configuration for a CSI report, wherein, at least one of reference resources for channel measurement configured for the CSI report is associated with a candidate cell configuration; and transmit, via the transceiver, the CSI report including a measurement result of one or more candidate cells.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for beam determination. An exemplary method for beam determination may include: receiving an indication indicating a joint or DL common beam mechanism is applied for a set of CORESETs configured for a UE in a cell; and for a CORESET of the set of CORESETs, in the case that there are two joint or DL common TCI states indicated by a TCI codepoint in a TCI field in a DCI are applicable in a slot, monitoring PDCCH in the CORESET in the slot, wherein: in the case that the CORESET is only able to be configured with one TCI state, the DM-RS antenna port of the PDCCH is quasi co-located with a set of RSs in one joint or DL common TCI state of the two joint or DL common TCI states, wherein the one joint or DL common TCI state is determined for the CORESET based on default configuration information or signaled configuration information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus of beam determination. An exemplary method includes: receiving a PRACH resource in a BWP of a serving cell; determining QCL properties of DMRS port of a PDCCH in response to the PRACH resource at least based on whether a plurality of values of CORESET pool index are configured for CORESETs in the BWP of the serving cell and a plurality of TAGs are configured in the serving cell, or whether L1/L2 based inter-cell mobility is configured in the serving cell; and transmitting the PDCCH based on the determined QCL properties of DMRS port of the PDCCH.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for multiple transmit-receive point (M-TRP) based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: receiving configuration information of a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set and a second SRS resource set for a codebook or non-codebook based PUSCH transmission; receiving a configured (CG) configuration for the PUSCH transmission, wherein the CG configuration includes one or two sets of power control parameters, and each set of power control parameter is associated with one SRS resource set of the first SRS resource set or the second SRS resource set; receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a PUSCH retransmission corresponding to the PUSCH transmission according to the CG configuration; and determining at least one set of power control parameters for the PUSCH retransmission.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of CSI reporting on amplitude and phase coefficients for coherent joint transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives a configuration signalling for a Channel State Information (CSI) report based on a codebook for coherent joint transmission (CJT) with a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities; and a transmitter that transmits the CSI report with amplitude coefficients and/or phase coefficients based on the codebook.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of monitoring behaviour determination for overlapping ePDCCH and CSI-RS/SSB/PDSCH/PDCCH are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a receiver, a configuration for a transmission of enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) with two Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states including two Quasi Co-Location Type D (QCL-TypeD) properties; and determining, by a processor, a monitoring behaviour based on a QCL-TypeD assumption and/or a predefined priority rule, wherein at least one symbol of the ePDCCH overlaps with a transmission of Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS), Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), and/or Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for SRS enhancement are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises configuring one or more cell IDs for SRS; and sending the configured cell ID(s) for SRS using higher layer signaling. In some embodiment, the method further comprises determining reserved transmission resources only for SRS transmission; and transmitting resource configuration parameters for the reserved transmission resources.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for inter-cell multi-TRP operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a configuration of different CORESETPoolIndex values for different CORESETs, wherein, CORESETPoolIndex=0 is associated with a PCID of a serving cell and the higher layer parameter CORESETPoolIndex=1 is associated with a PCID of a non-serving cell that is different from the PCID of the serving cell; and receiving a configuration of a SSB from the non-serving cell configured as a RS to the signal associated with CORESETPoolIndex=1.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for multiple transmit-receive points (multi-TRP) transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: receiving at least two configured grant (CG) configurations in a bandwidth part (BWP); receiving association information for associating the at least two CG configurations; and transmitting one or more repetitions of a transport block (TB) on one or more physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions from each CG configuration of the at least two CG configurations based on the association information. Embodiments of the present disclosure can support the TB transmitted toward multi-TRP according to the multiple CG configurations.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to facilitate larger number of DMRS ports are disclosed. A method may comprise receiving a configuration for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) that includes a DMRS type, wherein, the maximum number of DMRS ports supported by DMRS type 1 is 8 for single-symbol DMRS and 16 for double-symbol DMRS, and the maximum number of DMRS ports supported by DMRS type 2 is 12 for single-symbol DMRS and 24 for double-symbol DMRS; receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) indicating one or more DMRS ports for a scheduled transmission, wherein the scheduled transmission is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission; and mapping each of the indicated DMRS ports to a plurality of Resource Elements (REs) in one or more Resource Blocks (RBs) scheduled for the transmission based on the configuration for DMRS.

Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses for beam failure recovery (BFR) transmission.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for resource measurement restriction for beam management are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a MAC CE to activate or deactivate resource (s) configured for the UE for channel measurement; and determining CRI or SSBRI values that are not allowed to be reported in a CSI report according to the resource (s) deactivated by the MAC CE.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for channel state information report configuration. One method (600) includes transmitting (602) a medium access control control element message corresponding to a channel state information report configuration, wherein the medium access control control element message comprises: a channel state information report configuration identifier; and a channel state information resource configuration identifier for channel measurement.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting information for PDSCH configurations. One method includes determining configuration information comprising a plurality of instances of a physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter. The method includes transmitting the configuration information to a user equipment, wherein: the physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter is used for a physical downlink shared channel scheduled by downlink control information; the downlink control information is transmitted from a set of resources having a corresponding index of a plurality of indexes; and each index corresponds to an instance of the plurality of instances of the physical downlink shared channel configuration parameter.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for multiple transmit-receive points (multi-TRP) transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: receiving first configuration information for uplink phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) and second configuration information indicating a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets, wherein each of the plurality of SRS resource sets is associated with at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition; for each PUSCH repetition, determining a number of PT-RS ports for transmitting the uplink PT-RS; and transmitting two or more PUSCH repetitions. Embodiments of the present disclosure can resolve the issues caused by the imbalance numbers of PT-RS ports between different TRPs.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for frequency domain resource allocation for FDM based multi-panel simultaneous PUSCH transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a DCI scheduling an FDM based simultaneous multi-panel PUSCH transmission, the DCI indicates the uplink frequency resources used for the FDM based simultaneous multi-panel PUSCH transmission; and determine uplink frequency resources for the PUSCH transmission for a first panel and uplink frequency resources for the PUSCH transmission for a second panel from the indicated uplink frequency resources.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of SRS resource mapping hopping for cross-SRS interference mitigation are disclosed. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives a configuration signalling for Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource mapping hopping; a processor that determines a hopping set for SRS resource mapping hopping, wherein the hopping set comprises a set of Cyclic Shift (CS) values, a set of transmission combs, and/or a set of initial frequency locations for frequency hopping; and a transmitter that transmits an SRS with hopping in the hopping set based on a randomized SRS resource mapping.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of restriction on linked enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) candidates for ePDCCH soft combining are disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a network entity (NE), control resource set (CORESET) information, search space set information, and physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates, each of the PDCCH candidates being transmitted with one or more repetitions, and one CORESET being associated with one search space set and determining at least two PDCCH candidates from the PDCCH candidates in corresponding PDCCH monitoring occasions, where each of the at least two PDCCH candidates are determined from a respective one of at least two search space sets with a one-to-one mapping scheme.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for multiple physical uplink shared channel configurations. One method (500) includes receiving (502) a radio resource control configuration message including a list of physical uplink shared channel configurations for a bandwidth part of a component carrier. Each physical uplink shared channel configuration of the list of physical uplink shared channel configurations has a physical uplink shared channel configuration identifier or is implicitly indicated and configures a set of parameters for a physical uplink shared channel. The method (500) includes receiving (504) an activation message that activates a physical uplink shared channel configuration of the list of physical uplink shared channel configurations. The method (500) includes applying (506) the activated physical uplink shared channel configuration.