Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a base station, an uplink (UL) power change capability indication. The base station receives the UL power change capability indication, and transmits, to the UE, scheduling information for one or more UL transmissions that include one or more UL power changes based on the UL power change capability indication.

Abstract: A signal assignment unit (105) assigns a downlink control signal including resource assignment information of a PDSCH to a downlink resource. A specification unit (108) specifies a PUCCH resource using an offset value set to either a first PRB set or a second PRB set when the downlink control signal is disposed to spread over the first PRB set and the second PRB set. A signal separation unit (109) separates an ACK/NACK signal included in the specified PUCCH resource from a received signal from a terminal to which the downlink control signal has been transmitted.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer program for signal configuration in a wireless communication system. A method implemented at a network device comprises: transmitting information related to a resource allocation for a signal, and broadcasting the signal in accordance with the resource allocation; wherein the signal includes at least one of: a reference signal and a control signal containing system information. By virtue of the method, resource utilization may be more flexibly controlled.

Abstract: A wireless device may receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for a physical downlink channel. The wireless device may receive a signal. The physical downlink channel may start from the starting symbol plus an offset value.

Abstract: An method includes determining to perform inter-cell multi-downlink control information (multi-DCI) based multi-transmission reception point (multi-TRP) operation for a user device based on the following: receiving, by the user device from a network node, transmission configuration index (TCI) states for a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETS), wherein the TCI states for the plurality of CORESETs are associated with a plurality of cells having different physical cell identities (PCIs) or associated with a plurality of cell groups; and determining, by the user device, that at least one of the following conditions is present: 1) a multi-DCI based multi-TRP-related high layer parameter has been configured to the user device; 2) a default mode of multi-TRP operation has been configured to the user device; or 3) the user device has received control information indicating physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) TCI state activations corresponding to two different CORESETPoolIndex values; and, performing in

Abstract: Systems, processes and methods are described for increasing the reliability of packet delivery while reducing end-to-end latency and power consumption in a low power wireless network. The packet is forwarded during a transmit timeslot utilizing link layer broadcast transmissions. A preset number of retransmission timeslots are provided to retransmit the packet. To reduce energy consumption for recipients, a recipient can enter a sleep mode after receiving the packet for the remaining retransmit timeslots.

Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning voice communication channels used by a crew of employees using communication devices are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store information, wherein the information represents associations of individual voice communication channels with one or more communication groups; receive user input that identifies employees, automatically determine sets of communication channel assignments per communication device, between communication channels and subsets of communication groups; configure communication devices according to the determined assignments; and facilitate packet-based communication, using the communication channels, between the communication devices.

Abstract: Provided in the implementations of the present disclosure are a resource set transmission method and a terminal device, which can avoid problems of hidden nodes, exposed nodes, half duplex, etc. avoided during resource selection, and improve the reliability of resource selection. The resource set transmission method includes: a first terminal sending first information, the first information being used for indicating M resource sets, wherein the M resource sets are targeted at one target terminal, or each resource set in the M resource sets is targeted at one or more target terminals, and the resource set is used for determining a candidate transmission resource when the target terminal performs resource selection, and M is a positive integer and M?1.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless networks may maintain up-to-date location information for the UE by periodically determining the location the UE using a low power transponding mechanism while the UE is in an inactive state. The UE may monitor a first beam to receive one or more transponder search signals during one or more transponder occasions, and between paging attempts from one or more of the base stations of the network. The UE may receive the one or more transponder search signals, and may transmit a transponder response message to a base station including a UE identifier associated with the inactive state. The base station may receive the transponder response message, and may conduct various location measurements for the UE using the transponder response.

Abstract: The random access (RA) procedure in NR-U can be improved by enable the NR-U capable UE to choose a suitable BWP and uses this chosen BWP to perform the RA procedure. A suitable BWP is a BWP with a low probability for LBT failure, such as a BWP having a load that is less than a threshold load. For example, whenever the UE has a RA procedure triggered, the UE selects the most suitable BWP based on load information, such as load measurements made by the UE for one or more available BWPs or load information communicated to the UE. The selected BWP for the RA procedure may be different from the UE's currently active BWP, and, in this case, the UE may do a BWP switch before the RA procedure.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and another device (e.g., another UE) may transmit messages on a shared channel accessed in a half-duplex manner (e.g., within a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network). The UE and the other device may transmit messages on semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) resources. A message of the UE and a transmission of the other device may collide (e.g., be transmitted in the same subframe). The UE may employ muting and measuring, in which the UE may refrain from transmitting on a SPS resource and may detect the transmission of the other device. Upon detection of other transmissions, the UE may perform resource reselection. During resource selection or resource reselection, the UE may exclude an entire subframe of candidate resources if one of the candidate resources of the subframe is mapped to a resource associated with a transmission from another device.

Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) only based small data transmission. For example, described herein are: configuration of pre-allocated UL resource (PUR) set; association of synchronization signal block (SSB) and PUSCH transmission; scrambling sequence generation of the PUSCH transmission; and a procedure for PUSCH only transmission carrying small data. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for fast beam indication. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a number (M) of transmission configuration indicator (TCI)state code points activated by a medium access control element (MAC CE) and, if the UE is configured to be indicated TCI state code points on DL control information (DCI) and M>1, receiving the DCI that indicates at least one TCI state code point from the M TCI state code points and determining a TCI state to apply to at least one of downlink (DL) channels and uplink (UL) channels. The method further includes updating one or more spatial filters for at least one of the DL channels and the UL channels based on the determined TCI state and at least one of receiving and transmitting the DL channels and the UL channels, respectively, based on the updated one or more spatial filters.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for supporting wireless medium sharing in wireless communications systems, e.g., various 802.11 wireless communications systems, are described. A novel shared transmission type of trigger frame is implemented, which allows a wireless station, acting as a host station, to make available transmission resources, which have been acquired by the wireless station, to one or more guest stations. A shared transmission type of trigger frame, generated and transmitted by the host station communicates information identifying the attributes of a corresponding trigger based (TB) frame, information identifying resources of the TB frame to be used by the host station and information identifying one or more set of shared resources which may be used by guest station(s). The trigger based (TB) frame, corresponding to the transmitted shared transmission type trigger frame, is used by the host station and one or more guest stations to transmit data to an access point.

Abstract: An information transmission method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method is applied to a communication system including a network device and a terminal device, and a frequency-domain resource on a carrier used by the communication system is a contention based frequency-domain resource. The method including: the network device determining an available first time-frequency resource and sending first information to the terminal device through the first time-frequency resource; the terminal device receiving first information from the network device through a first time-frequency resource, where the first time-frequency resource is a time-frequency resource in a first downlink transmission burst; and the terminal device determining, according to the first information, that the first time-frequency resource is a downlink time-frequency resource.

Abstract: A data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the configuration information is used to configure one or more slot format indictors (SFIs) corresponding to one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured for the terminal device; the terminal device determines a currently used target SFI according to the configuration information; and the terminal device performs data transmission according to the target SFI.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of at least one of a configured grant or a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration. The UE may transmit or receive, based at least in part on a modification to the at least one of the configured grant or the SPS configuration, wherein the modification is based at least in part on a change from a first time domain pattern to a second time domain pattern. The UE may receive and indication of the modification from the base station. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may determine the medication based at least in part on at least one rule stored in a memory of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A method for transmitting information is applicable to a terminal and includes: buffering data information carried by an unlicensed spectrum resource; acquiring a target scheduling instruction issued by a base station, the target scheduling instruction being configured to indicate resource configuration information of a preceding downlink transmission resource, and the preceding downlink transmission resource referring to an unlicensed spectrum resource that has completed transmission for downlink data before the base station issues scheduling information on the resource; acquiring target information sent by the base station from the buffered data information according to the target scheduling instruction.

Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit/receive signals to/from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a controller. The communications device is configured to: receive from a mobile communications network an indication listing narrowband carriers provided by one or more infrastructure equipment forming one or more cells of the mobile communications network, and an indication of type of the narrowband carriers; to measure a strength of signals received from each of the narrowband carriers, to select one of the narrowband carriers based on the type and a value of the measured strength of the signals received from the narrowband carriers, and to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment providing the selected narrowband carrier to inform the mobile communications network that the communications device can receive data from the mobile communications network via the selected narrowband carrier to reduce an uplink transmission power.

Abstract: A method is provided including determining a strength of a channel to each of a plurality of user equipments in a wireless multi-user network; scheduling first downlink resources for transmitting first downlink messages to a first group of the user equipments including the user equipments having the strongest channels; and scheduling second resources for transmitting second downlink messages to a second group of the remaining user equipments using a combination of broadcasting and cooperative relaying.

Abstract: An electronic device may receive, from a radio node, a measurement configuration associated with a wireless communication system. In response, the electronic device may perform measurements using narrow beam patterns based at least in part on a network configuration, where the narrow beam patterns are narrower than a wide beam pattern of the electronic device. Furthermore, performing the measurements using the narrow beams pattern may include performing a beam-pattern search up to the network configuration. Then, the electronic device may perform an SCell activation procedure of an SCell with the radio node. Note that the SCell activation procedure may include reporting, to the radio node, CSI of a narrow beam pattern of the SCell that is to be activated, where the narrow beam pattern is narrower than the wide beam pattern of the electronic device, and the narrow beam pattern is based at least in part on the measurements.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information that identifies an association between a first cell of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second cell of a second RAT. The UE may perform a measurement for the first cell. The UE may determine that the measurement for the first cell satisfies a threshold value. The UE may perform an interference canceling operation for a reference signal of the second cell, or a de-weighting operation for one or more resource elements in which the reference signal interferes, based at least in part on the determination that the measurement for the first cell satisfies the threshold value and the association between the first cell and the second cell. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first apparatus, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a first base station, information associated with a sidelink (SL) bandwidth part (BWP); receiving, from the first base station, information associated with an uplink (UL) BWP; receiving, from the first base station, information associated with a first SL resource and information associated with a first UL resource for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback; determining not to perform SL transmission on the basis of the first SL resource on the SL BWP; and on the basis of determining, by the first apparatus, not to perform the SL transmission on the basis of the first SL resource, transmitting, to the first base station, HARQ NACK on the basis of the first UL resource on the UL BWP.

Abstract: A resource conflict arbitration apparatus that arbitrates a conflict between resources includes: reception means configured to receive a request for resource allocation to a device among one or more devices; determination means configured to determine, when a resource requested by the resource allocation request is to be allocated to the device, whether a summed value of resources allocated to the one or more devices exceeds an upper limit value of available resources; and calculation means configured to determine, when it is determined by the determination means that the summed value exceeds the upper limit value, a status of resource allocation to each device to maximize a sum of priorities of resource allocation to the one or more devices under a constraint condition that a summed value of resources allocated to the devices does not exceed the upper limit value.

Abstract: In a random access radio communication system configured to perform downlink communication from a radio base station to radio terminals by random access, the radio terminals include one or more low latency terminals requiring low latency and one or more non-low latency terminals not requiring low latency, and the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals are configured to be distinguished by service set identifiers (SSIDs). The random access radio communication system includes terminal assignment destination control unit of distinguishing the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals in accordance with the SSIDs and evenly distributing the terminals into a plurality of communication channels, and random access control unit of performing priority control on the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals for each communication channel so that the downlink communication in the low latency terminal satisfies a predetermined delay time.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a prioritization rule that indicates a relative priority for different uplink communications included in a group of uplink communications, wherein the group of uplink communications includes at least a first uplink communication and a second uplink communication to be transmitted by the UE using time-division multiplexing during a make-before-break handover procedure. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the prioritization rule, the first uplink communication to a target base station and the second uplink communication to a source base station using time-division multiplexing during the make-before-break handover procedure. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus may determine whether to indicate a beam failure recovery request to a base station using a contention-free RACH procedure with a dedicated preamble when the UE is timing unsynchronized with the base station. The apparatus may perform, when the apparatus is timing unsynchronized with the base station, the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble to indicate the beam failure recovery request when the beam failure recovery request is determined to be indicated to the base station using the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble. The apparatus may perform, when the apparatus is timing unsynchronized with the base station, a contention-based RACH procedure to indicate the beam failure recovery request when the beam failure recovery request is undetermined to be sent to the base station using the contention-free RACH procedure with the dedicated preamble.

Abstract: An information transmission method and an apparatus, where the method includes: sending first indication information to a terminal, where the first indication information is used to indicate a format configuration of one or more time units in first time duration, where the format configuration is a time domain structure configuration of the one or more time units in a transmission direction, where the first time duration is not greater than second time duration, and where the second time duration is a maximum channel occupancy time of a network device.

Abstract: An apparatus acquires random access information for at least one of a donor node serving the node or a neighbor cell of the node and determines one or more random access parameters for a device to perform a random procedure with the node. The one or more random access parameters are based on the acquired random access information. The apparatus may be an IAB node.

Abstract: Disclosed are wireless communication system base stations. Each wireless communication base station comprises a communication module and a processor. When the base stations carry out DRS- and nonunicast data-multiplexed transmission, the processors select one channel access type among two channel access types according to whether both of two conditions are satisfied, the two conditions being that the duration of the DRS- and nonunicast data-multiplexed transmission is 1 ms or less, and the duty cycle of DRS transmission is 1/20 or less. Among the two channel access types, the first type is channel access in which random backoff is carried out using a variable-size contention window (CW), the size of the CW being determined according to channel access priority class; and the second type is channel access in which only single time interval-based LBT is carried out.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication may include communicating, by a first wireless communication device with a second wireless communication device, a first scheduling grant indicating a gap period within a first scheduled period and communicating, by the first wireless communication device with the second wireless communication device during the first scheduled period, a first communication signal including a first silence period corresponding to the gap period.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select, within a resource selection window, a set of resources in which to transmit over an unlicensed sidelink channel. The UE may attempt a listen before talk (LBT) procedure to initiate a channel occupancy time in which to transmit over the unlicensed sidelink channel. The UE may adjust, within at least a portion of the resource selection window, the set of resources in which to transmit over the unlicensed sidelink channel to be contiguous in at least a time domain based at least in part on the LBT procedure succeeding. The UE may transmit, over the unlicensed sidelink channel, using the set of resources that are adjusted to be contiguous in at least the time domain. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to channel occupancy time (COT) sharing in multi-subscriber identity module (MultiSim) devices are provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits, based on a first subscriber identity during a first portion of a channel occupancy time (COT) in an unlicensed band, a first communication signal. The UE transmits, based on a second subscriber identity during a second portion of the COT, a second communication signal, the second subscriber identity being different from the first subscriber identity.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handling a listen before talk (LBT) failure are provided. One method may include performing, by a user equipment, listen before talk (LBT). When the listen before talk (LBT) is successful, the method may include transmitting an intended transmission subsequent to the listen before talk (LBT). When the listen before talk (LBT) is not successful, the method may include transmitting an indication of listen before talk (LBT) failure by transmitting a portion of the intended transmission subsequent to the listen before talk (LBT).

Abstract: Provided are a method by which a first device performs wireless communication and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: determining a first PSSCH resource selected by a second device; selecting a second PSSCH resource; and transmitting a PSSCH by using the second PSSCH resource. Here, a PSFCH resource related to the second PSSCH resource may not overlap a PSFCH resource related to the first PSSCH resource.

Abstract: This application discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting a signal, a terminal device, and a network device. The method for transmitting a signal includes: transmitting, by a terminal device in a first-type random access process, a first message to a network device, and obtaining first indication information from the network device, the first message including a first preamble and first uplink data; and determining, by the terminal device based on the first indication information, whether to make another transmission of the first message to the network device another time, the retransmitted first message including the first preamble and/or the first uplink data, or whether to fall from the first-type random access process back to a second-type random access process.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present application relate to a communication method, a terminal deice, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device acquires a target physical random access channel (PRACH) resource set, the target PRACH resource set comprising at least one resource set between a first PRACH resource set and a second PRACH resource set, the first PRACH resource set and the second PRACH resource set being different by at least one resource; and the terminal device determines a target PRACH resource in the target PRACH resource set, the target PRACH resource being used for PRACH transmission in a random access process. The communication method, the terminal device, and the network device of the embodiments of the present application allow the terminal device to access a network via an NR-U carrier.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for transmitting user plane data to a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by a cell of the wireless communications network when the communications device is not in an active radio resource connected mode is provided. The method comprises transmitting the user plane data using one of a preconfigured set of uplink radio resources of the wireless access interface and a scheduled random access procedure message, and monitoring a preconfigured set of downlink radio resources of the wireless access interface for a downlink signal, the preconfigured set of downlink radio resources being provided in response to the transmitted user plane data.

Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method by a terminal configured with at least one serving cell for performing a random access (RA) procedure is provided. The method includes measuring downlink reference signal received power (DL RSRP) of a serving cell on which the RA procedure is initiated, determining whether the DL RSRP of the serving cell is greater than a threshold, and performing a two-step RA procedure based on the DL RSRP of the serving cell being greater than the threshold.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a resource configuration for a random access (RA) procedure. The resource configuration may identify multiple sets of transmission resources corresponding to multiple radio resource control (RRC) states. The UE may identify an RRC state and may determine a set of transmission resources and/or a transport format based on the indication of the resource configuration, the identified RRC state, and/or a UE identifier (UE ID). The UE may transmit a first RA procedure message (e.g., a msgA) using the determined transmission resources and/or transport format. The base station may receive the message and may identify the RRC state of the UE based on the first message and transmitted indication of the resource configuration. The base station may transmit a second RA procedure message (e.g., a msgB), which the UE may receive.

Abstract: A random access method and a terminal are provided. The random access method comprises: receiving random access mechanism configuration information sent by a base station, wherein the random access mechanism configuration information includes a random access type and random access time-frequency resource information corresponding to the random access type, and the random access type includes a first random access mechanism and/or a second random access mechanism; and performing a random access process of the first random access mechanism or the second random access mechanism according to the random access mechanism configuration information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising: a step for receiving group common DCI including slot format information and channel occupancy duration information; a step for determining slot formats for one or more slots on the basis of the slot format information and the channel occupancy duration information; and a step for performing communication on the basis of the determined slot formats for the one or more slots.

Abstract: A wireless communication circuit for operating over a wireless local area network (WLAN) supporting carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in which real time application (RTA) traffic and non-RTA traffic coexist. Channel time is scheduled for transmitting real-time application (RTA) traffic based on expected RTA packet arrival time, with the schedule being shared with neighboring stations. Schedule time is adjusted based on schedules of neighboring stations to prevent channel contention collisions of multiple RTA traffics contending for the channel. Various mechanisms are described for supporting RTA transmissions while reducing channel access latency and contention collision.

Abstract: A data sharing and instruction operation control method, and a system are provided. The method includes: a first terminal establishes a communication connection to a second terminal; the second terminal displays a user interface of a camera application, wherein the user interface includes a photographing parameter adjustment option; the second terminal sends the user interface including the photographing parameter adjustment option to the first terminal; the first terminal may tap the photographing parameter adjustment option on the user interface, and send a control instruction to the second terminal; and the second terminal adjusts a photographing parameter of the camera application based on the control instruction, and displays a user interface obtained after the parameter adjustment.

Abstract: A system (900) and method (1100) instructing a vehicle (910) where and when to refuel is disclosed herein. The system (900) comprises a server (925) for receiving a workflow for a vehicle (910). The workflow comprises an origination location (901) of the vehicle, a destination (950) of the vehicle (910), a route (905) to the destination, a cargo, a time of departure and a time of arrival. The server (925) determines a plurality of fuel stops (930) along the route (905).

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a protocol data unit (PDU) session service network element to control an aggregated maximum bit rate (AMBR), where the method includes receiving, by a control plane function network element, a request for establishing a first PDU session from a mobility management device, where the request for establishing the first PDU session includes a first data network name (DNN), determining, by the control plane function network element, that a same control plane function network element and a same user plane function network element need to be selected for a PDU session corresponding to the first DNN, and sending, by the control plane function network element, first indication information to the mobility management device, where the first indication information is used to indicate that a same control plane function network element needs to be selected for the PDU session corresponding to the first DNN.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a unified interface that is configured to support communication between a user equipment (UE) and application function (AF) via a network exposure function (NEF) are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a NEF from a session management function (SMF), a protocol data unit (PDU) session event change notification message associated with a UE, establishing, by the NEF, a data delivery path between the UE and an application function (AF) via one of a plurality of data delivery planes that traverse the NEF in response to the PDU session event change notification message and processing, by the NEF, messages communicated between the UE and the AF over any of the plurality of data delivery planes using a single unified interface supported by the NEF.

Abstract: A session management function (SMF) receives, from a wireless device, a first message requesting establishment of a PDU session for a network slice associated with a service of a communication service provider (CSP). The first message comprises a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) of the network slice and a CSP identifier (ID). The SMF sends, to the wireless device, a second message accepting the establishment of the PDU session for the network slice associated with the service of the CSP.

Abstract: A method of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication by a first device includes obtaining at least one measurement value corresponding to a relative velocity between the first device and a second device; adjusting at least one transmission parameter based on the at least one measurement value; providing the adjusted at least one transmission parameter to the second device; and transmitting data to the second device based on the adjusted at least one transmission parameter.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein modify the utilized communication protocol of one or more wireless base stations and/or UE devices based on signal quality information or data rate information associated with one or more UE devices. The signal quality information or data rate information of the UE devices can be analyzed by a base station and the base station can respond to changes in signal quality or data rate of the UE devices by modifying the configuration of one or more base stations and/or UE devices from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol quality of transmissions between the UE devices and a base station.