Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for power control are disclosed. A method comprises: receiving a first signaling indicating one or multiple power values for a downlink reception from a node, each power value being associated with a spatial domain filter, and determining a power value for the downlink reception from the node.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for NBIoT frequency hopping are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a signal on a first number of frequency carriers, the signal switches among the first number of frequency carriers every a second number of time unit, wherein, the second number is configured by higher layer signaling, and the second number is determined by at least one of a subcarrier spacing of the signal, a scaling factor, a resource unit size of the signal, a subcarrier allocation.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for scheduling enhancement for eMTC are disclosed. A method comprises determining a HARQ process number for a transport block (TB), wherein the HARQ process number is determined by at least one of a HARQ process field of a control signal, a fixed HARQ process number, a HARQ process number of earliest scheduled process in a time duration, a HARQ process number of a process with earliest feedback in a time duration, a scrambling code of the TB, and a predefined HARQ process number of a process in an earliest feedback bundle; and transmitting the TB with the determined HARQ process number.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for designing a control-resource set (CORESET) for a user equipment (UE) supporting New Radio (NR) Internet of Things (IoT) application in 3GPP 5G technology. A method for wireless communications performed by a base station (BS) includes: transmitting, to a UE, signaling configuring a control region on a wideband carrier, wherein the control region occupies more than three orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain; and transmitting, to the UE, a downlink control channel within the control region.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for determining a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) codebook for carrier aggregation (CA). A method for determining a HARQ-ACK codebook for CA includes receiving a first control signal on a carrier within a carrier group in a slot, wherein the first control signal includes an indicator for indicating whether the carrier is a last scheduled carrier of the carrier group for downlink transmissions. The method further includes transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook corresponding to the downlink transmissions in the slot for the carrier group, wherein, based on the first control signal, one or more HARQ-ACK bits for the last scheduled carrier are arranged at the end of the HARQ-ACK codebook. The present application reduces signaling overhead for a HARQ-ACK codebook and avoids misunderstanding between a base unit and a remote unit when determining the HARQ-ACK codebook for CA.

Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method at a base nit, comprising: generating a wake up signal which indicates that a remote unit shall attempt to receive a paging message in a paging occasion, wherein the wake up signal is generated by L base sequences, each of the L base sequences is mapped to a base resource unit, where L is an integer, wherein the base resource unit includes M continous Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) in frequency domain and N continous Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a slot in time domain, where M and N are integers; mapping the wake up signal to a frequency-time resource; and transmitting, to the remote unit, the mapped wake up signal in the frequency-time resource.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for power control are disclosed. A method comprises: receiving a first signaling indicating one or multiple power values for a downlink reception from a node, each power value being associated with a spatial domain filter, and determining a power value for the downlink reception from the node.

Abstract: The present application relates to a user equipment, a base station and a method for data transmission. The base station transmits a paging message to the user equipment. The paging message includes a Random Access Channel (RACH) resource associated with Coverage Enhancement (CE) level information. After receiving the paging message, the user equipment selects a specific CE level from the CE level information. The user equipment transmits a Random Access (RA) preamble to the base station according to the RACH resource with the specific CE level.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a first communication device from a second communication device, first registration information of a last serving cell, the first registration information at least including a first tracking area code and the identity of the second communication device; and determining whether to perform a registration procedure for the second communication device based on the first registration information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for indicating carrier are disclosed. A method comprises transmitting a candidate carrier configuration, wherein the candidate carrier configuration includes at least one of a frequency position, a frequency offset, an operation mode, NRS information, CRS information, power offset and EUTRA system bandwidth of at least one candidate carrier.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for resource configuration priority levels. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (602) random access resource information indicating multiple random access resource configurations having different priority levels. The apparatus (200) also includes a processor (202) that determines (604) a random access resource configuration from the multiple random access resource configurations. The apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (606) a random access signal based on the random access resource configuration.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for resource allocation for EMBB/URLLC in 3GPP 5G technology. A method for resource allocation performed by abase station (BS) includes: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), signaling indicating non-available resource on a carrier, wherein the non-available resource is reserved for a specific type of communication; and transmitting, to the UE, an indicator indicating allocated resource for transmitting data on the carrier, wherein the allocated resource includes at least part of the non-available resource.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus of using redundant bits in semi-statically configured HARQ-ACK feedback. A method of receiving information according to one embodiment comprises receiving a first number of code block groups from a base unit, wherein each code block within a code block group is independently decodable; determining a (HARQ-ACK) codebook size corresponding to the first number of code block groups; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook to the base unit, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises the first number of HARQ-ACK bits with each bit corresponding to one code block group and a second number of padded bits. The first number plus the second number is equal to the determined HARQ-ACK codebook size. The present application enhances the downlink (DL) transmission performance and the uplink (UL) HARQ-ACK transmission reliability.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving a first buffer status report at a communication device; and triggering a pre-emptive buffer status report based on the first buffer status report if a trigger condition is met.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for indicating a TDD uplink-downlink configuration. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a signal indicating an uplink-downlink transmission pattern, wherein the uplink-downlink transmission pattern having a first transmission period includes a first plurality of type-1 slots, a second plurality of type-2 slots, and a third plurality of type-3 slots, wherein the type-1 slots only comprise downlink symbols, and the type-2 slots only comprise uplink symbols; and monitoring a transmission of downlink control channel within the first plurality of type-1 slots.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting, from a communication device, a message indicating a paging collision; and receiving, at the communication device, configuration information in response to the message indicating the paging collision.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for preconfigured uplink resource are disclosed. A method at a remote unit comprises transmitting a data in a predefined resource based on a resource configuration; and receiving a control signal in a first search space, wherein the control signal includes at least one of (1) a response to the data; (2) an updated TA; (3) an updated power; (4) an updated data transmission repetition; (5) a flag of retransmission based on dynamic grant or the predefined resource; (6) a fallback indication; and (7) a predefined resource release indication.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for SL SRS transmission are disclosed. One method of a relay/remote UE comprises transmitting a SRS on a SL. The SRS is based on a SL SRS configuration which configures location information of the SRS in time-frequency domain. The transmission of SRS can be either periodic or aperiodic. Further, the SRS is a single SRS or a set of SRS.

Abstract: For mobile phone network random access, a method transmits a connection release message (200) to communication device (110). The connection release message (200) includes a transmission identifier (205) and the transmission identifier derives a paging frame (280) and a paging occasion for the communication device. The method further transmits a group paging (250) at the paging frame (280) and the paging occasion. The group paging includes a scrambling value (255) and a listening window duration (260). In addition, the method transmits scheduling information (296) via a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) scrambled by the scrambling value (255).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a first communication device from a second communication device, first registration information of a last serving cell, the first registration information at least including a first tracking area code and the identity of the second communication device; and determining whether to perform a registration procedure for the second communication device based on the first registration information.