Abstract: This disclosure describes an edge-node computing system that provides streamlined access to secured products/services based on data captured by one or more sensors. The captured data may include unsolicited authenticators. Edge-nodes may process the captured data and perform a plurality of pre-authentication routines. A consensus protocol executed by the edge-nodes may establish a threshold pre-authentication of a customer based on the plurality of pre-authentication routines. Edge-nodes may configure an automated teller machine (“ATM”) to provide the customer access to the ATM based on the threshold pre-authentication. The edge-nodes may configure the ATM to allow the customer to use a contactless authentication method to access the ATM.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a packet reception unit; a packet transmission unit; and a processing sequence control unit that controls a processing sequence, and the processing sequence control unit includes a packet holding unit; function instances for respective function files including groups of procedures and groups of variables; an instance information management unit that holds instance information including function instance identifiers identifying the function instances, procedure identifiers identifying the procedures belonging to the function instances, and memory addresses of the procedures; an execution sequence information management unit that holds execution sequence information that associates the function instance identifiers, the procedure identifiers, return values of the procedures, and procedures belonging to function instances that are to be executed next; and a function execution unit that, on the basis of the execution sequence information and the instance information, calls a pro

Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for generating visualizations of data based on correlation measures and search history. An analysis engine may access data observed from a data source over time. The analysis engine may determine a variation of each of at least a first metric and a second metric of the data, over time. A correlation engine may determine a correlation measure between the first metric and a second metric, over time. The correlation engine may generate, responsive to the correlation measure being greater than a reference level, a visualization of the first metric and the second metric varying in time, on a device to display to a user.

Abstract: An airborne system and method for the characterization and measurement of radiating systems or antennas (5), including: an aerial module (1) including a unit for measuring electromagnetic emissions (11), which captures the electromagnetic field (E) radiated by the radiating system or antenna (5), and a positioning and guiding system (13) with an accuracy equal to or less than 3 cm; and a ground station (2) including a unit (23) for processing the electromagnetic emission measurements, which processes the measurements using a set of algorithms for processing electromagnetic emission measurements (25). Also, a method for measuring and characterizing radiating systems or antennas (5). The invention is suitable for use in sectors that require antennas to be characterized and measured, such as, for example, radar and radio navigation facilities, terrestrial- and satellite-based telecommunications systems, or terrestrial broadcasting facilities.

Abstract: A network element includes a plurality of ports interconnected by a switching fabric, wherein a port includes a plurality of connections including an infrastructure connection that operates a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session and a group of connections that share a similar fate for a fault as the infrastructure connection; and a controller configured to detect a fault on the infrastructure connection via the BFD session, and cause a protection switch for one or more of the group of connections based on the fault on the infrastructure connection. The infrastructure connection and the group of connections can be Pseudowires (PWE) or Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network.

Abstract: A method of controlling a master device includes, providing a measured service level by measuring a service level with respect to requests of a master device that is connected to a slave device through an interconnect device and generates the request to demand services from the slave device and controlling a power level of a request control circuit included in the master device based on the measured service level. Power consumption of the master device and the system including the master device is reduced without performance degradation by controlling the power level of the request control circuit adaptively based on the measured service level.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system, a method and a device for switching between different communications protocols. A head wearable display can transmit, to a console during a first session interval, a first request to switch from a first link using a first communication protocol to a second link using a second communication protocol. The first request can include at least one characteristic of the first link. The head wearable display can receive, from the console, a first response to the first request, to perform a switch from the first link to the second link. The first response can indicate a wake up time and a second session interval to perform the switch. The head wearable display can switch from the first link to the second link in the second session interval and after the wake up time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method by which a terminal receives downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method can acquire the DCI by detecting a plurality of first DCI candidates in a plurality of control resource block (RB) sets, descrambling a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) included in each of the plurality of first DCI candidates, and aggregating second DCI candidates, from among the plurality of first DCI candidates, descrambled on the basis of the same scrambling sequence.

Abstract: A method performed by a network node for performing Congestion Control in a wireless communications network is provided. The network node serves a number of User Equipments, UEs, comprising a first and one or more second UEs. The first UE has a radio resource allocated for communication between the first UE and the network node. The network node estimates (203) a first prediction of a forthcoming usage of the allocated radio resource, based on a measured data traffic between the network node and the first UE. The network node further determines (205) a first threshold related to the first prediction, as a function of a measured data traffic load between the network node and the number of UEs. The network node then performs (206) congestion control by deciding whether or not to initiate a removal of the radio resource allocated to the first UE, based on whether or not the first prediction exceeds the first threshold.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for storing data about biological entities are provided. A computing device can receive a plurality of data items about a biological entity from a plurality of sources. The computing device can verify each data item of the plurality of data items using the computing device by at least: determining a source of the data item from among the plurality of sources, determining a provenance for the data item associated with the source of the data item, and verifying that the data item is associated with the biological entity based at least on the provenance for the data item associated with the source of the data item. After verifying that a particular data item is associated with the biological entity, the computing device can store the particular data item in a data log associated with the biological entity.

Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating and using native virtual probes in computing environments. A request for a service that includes a virtual function can be received, where the virtual function is to be monitored by a native virtual probe. An image of the service can be obtained, where the image can include a first image component for the virtual function and a second image component for the native virtual probe. The image can be deployed. Deployment of the image can result in instantiation of the virtual function on a computing device and instantiation of the native virtual probe on the computing device.

Abstract: Methods are provided to preemptively reconfigure a mobile network to respond to external emergencies. The method is performed at a network device of a service provider which provides access to a mobile network for wireless device. The method includes obtaining a message indicating an occurrence of a disaster. The message includes at least an emergency type and location information. The method further includes determining, based on the emergency type, a reconfiguration policy for reconfiguring the mobile network in an area indicated by the location information and reconfiguring the mobile network based on the reconfiguration policy. The method further includes authenticating a disaster application function and a notification message informing about an occurrence of a disaster.

Abstract: This application provides a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a pilot signal corresponding to at least one of a plurality of search sections of a control channel; and detecting, by the terminal device, a control channel candidate in the at least one search section based on a quasi-co-location (QCL) association between the pilot signal corresponding to each search section and the demodulation pilot of the control channel candidate in each search section.

Abstract: In order to control CSI reporting properly when communication is carried out by applying different configurations than existing LTE systems, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives configuration information for channel state information reporting, and a control section that controls a start of periodic transmission of the channel state information reporting based on the configuration information in response to receipt of a command for activation of the channel state information reporting, and that controls that, when a condition is fulfilled during a period from the start to deactivation of the channel state information reporting, the channel state information reporting is no longer transmitted.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a terminal configuration method, including: obtaining, by a network device, cell access information and/or beam access information; determining configuration information based on the cell access information and/or the beam access information; and sending the configuration information to a terminal. The present invention further discloses a network device and a terminal that can implement the foregoing terminal configuration method. In the present invention, mobility of the terminal can be accurately determined, so that cell reselection performance, cell handover performance, or beam change performance of the terminal can be improved.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a wireless device, operating in a wireless network, handles transitions from Radio Resource Control, RRC, connected state to an RRC inactive state. The wireless device receives (1502), from the wireless network, a message indicating either that the wireless device is to enter the RRC inactive state or that the wireless device is to remain in the RRC inactive state. The wireless device, responsive to the message, uses (1504), for inactive state operation, at least one previously stored inactive state parameter corresponding to a parameter omitted from the message.

Abstract: Provided is a method operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method includes determining a carrier aggregation (CA) configuration for the wireless device to receive eMBMS data on multiple carriers of a dedicated mode type and/or a mixed mode type. The CA configuration is determined based at least partially on at least one of a pre-defined rule that delimits one or more acceptable characteristics for at least a portion of the multiple carriers, a capability of the wireless device that relates to receiving and decoding eMBMS data on multiple carriers, and a pre-defined set of acceptable CA configurations. The method includes configuring the determined CA configuration in the wireless device and performing one or more operational tasks under the configured CA configuration.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scheduling a plurality of Virtual Links (VLs) in a Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTE) network by determining a subset of a group of bins allocated to TT traffic; restricting the subset bin groups to a specified harmonic subdivided pattern with a certain duration; allocating the subset of bin groups in accordance with bin group equated with a rate at least twice as high as a highest TT traffic rate available in the network to enable control of partitioned traffic by using a set of media reservations; checking whether a bin selected via a bin selection process for scheduling a TT Virtual Link (VL) is a valid TT bin, else proceeding to a subsequent bin until a valid TT bin is returned for the TT VL, and reserving using at least one media reservation for a TT VL to be scheduled by temporal partitioning at the restricted rate.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives first information, receives a first signaling and transmits a first radio signal. The first information is used for determining a first air interface resource and a second air interface resource, and the first signaling includes scheduling information of the first radio signal; in instances in which the first radio signal is related to the first air interface resource, the scheduling information of the first radio signal is codebook-based; in instances in which the first radio signal is related to the second air interface resource, the scheduling information of the first radio signal is non-codebook-based. The above method has following benefits: when multiple TRPs serve one UE simultaneously, each TRP can select an optimal precoding mode depending on its own actual condition.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and work product is disclosed. The method comprises measuring plural transmit signals and corresponding receive signals and determining, using a model describing a relation between each of the plural transmit signals and a respective passive intermodulation signal, a standardized passive intermodulation signal as one or more nth order intermodulation products for a standardized transmit signal consisting of two tones each of a power of substantially 20 Watts. The method may also comprise identifying in the model one or more nth order cross-intermodulation products resulting from three or more transmit signals having different respective carrier frequencies. Responsive to the identification, the method may comprise adapting the standardized two-tone passive intermodulation signal by determining an offset for producing an adapted two-tone standardized passive intermodulation signal, n is an odd integer greater than two.

Abstract: In a control device 22 having a control unit 31 that controls an NR measurement device 20 and an LTE measurement device 21 and a display unit 33 that displays control contents of the control unit 31, the control unit 31 controls the display unit 33 such that the display unit 33 displays an NR simulation parameter display area 33c1 or an LTE simulation parameter display area 33c2 in accordance with the communication standard of the selected NR or LTE, in a case where the selection of either NR or LTE is received on the communication standard identification tabs 41a and 41b of the main screen 33a.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to monitoring a paging signal are provided. A wireless communication device may receive a first system information signal from a base station (BS) and may configure a counter with an initial counter value in response to receiving the first system information signal. Additionally, the wireless communication device may receive a second system information signal from the BS and may modify the counter value of the counter in response to receiving the second system information signal. The wireless communication device may monitor for a paging signal from the BS while the counter is outstanding.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method, executable by a network device, that receives a set of commands specifying an ingress interface of the network device and a set of packet attributes. The method further generates a test packet based on the set of packet attributes. The method also injects the test packet into a hardware packet processing pipeline of the network device so that the test packet appears, from the perspective of the hardware packet processing pipeline, to be received at the ingress interface of the network device. The method further processes the test packet through the hardware packet processing pipeline of the network device. The method also captures the test packet before the test packet exits an egress interface of a plurality of egress interfaces of the network device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user equipment in a mobile communication system. The UE comprises processing circuitry, which in operation, determines at least one radio link via which a first base station is to forward data packets to the user equipment. The user equipment is connectable to both the first base station via a first radio link and to a second base station via a second radio link. The UE further comprises a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a radio link selection message to the first base station. The radio link selection message comprises information on the determined at least one radio link for instructing the first base station via which at least one radio link to forward the data packets to the user equipment.

Abstract: A method for adapting an encoding bitrate of real-time signals of a real-time communication session between sender devices and receiver devices of communication terminals. A sender device includes a multi-bitrate encoder using a set of discrete bitrates. The method includes a test step of increasing the encoding bitrate at the sender device by transmitting at least one redundant packet according to selected transmission parameters. A method is also provided for determining a request to adapt the encoding bitrate of real-time signals in order to implement a test of increasing the encoding bitrate at the sender device by transmitting at least one redundant packet according to selected transmission parameters. A sender device and a receiver device implementing the methods are provides as well as a terminal containing these devices.

Abstract: A network node (110), a wireless device (120) and methods therein, for enabling the wireless device (120) to obtain configuration information from a multicast control channel, e.g. SC-MCCH, which is transmitted by the network node (110). The network node (110) transmits an indication of change of the multicast control channel, wherein the indication further indicates whether the wireless device (120) is affected by the change and needs to acquire or obtain the multicast control channel or not. The network node (110) further transmits the multicast control channel as changed according to said indication. Thereby, the wireless device (120) can decide to obtain and acquire the multicast control channel only if it is affected by the change and to refrain when not affected, which will reduce the consumption of energy in the wireless device (120).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure 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.

Abstract: An optical network includes an arrangement of optical nodes. An optical node of the arrangement, and corresponding method, perform optical connectivity discovery and negotiation-less optical fiber continuity verification in the optical network. An overall topology of optical connectivity provisioned for the arrangement is discovered by the optical node based on messages received from a management network communicatively coupling the optical nodes to each other. The optical node synchronizes, temporally and sequentially, with the other optical nodes based on the messages received, assigns fiber of the overall topology, based on a verification sequencing method, to verification slots of a verification sequence, and verifies continuity of fiber according to the verification slots of the verification sequence.

Abstract: Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure may be applied to a smart service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. Disclosed are a method and apparatus for performing radio link monitoring (RLM) and radio link failure (RLF) in a vehicle communication (V2X) system.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that determine device connectivity in the absence of a network layer 2 discovery protocol such as Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes retrieving, from a bridge data store of a bridge device on a network having one or more host devices, a plurality of first interface indexes, wherein each first interface index corresponds to a network interface of network interfaces of the bridge device; retrieving, from the bridge data store, remote network addresses corresponding to the network interfaces of the bridge device, each remote network address of the remote network addresses corresponding to a second interface index; selecting a remote network address having a second interface index that matches the first interface index; determining a host device having the selected remote network address; and outputting an indication that the bridge device is coupled to the host device.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication, and a UE and a base station implementing the method are provided. The UE receives a first signaling and a second signaling, and then operates a first radio signal. Herein, the first signaling comprises a first field, and the second signaling comprises a second field. The second signaling comprises first-type scheduling information of the first radio signal. The first field of the first signaling and the second field of the second signaling are jointly used for determining whether the first radio signal is related to the first signaling. The operating action is receiving, or the operating action is transmitting. When the UE is scheduled to transmit or measure a plurality of reference signals, the above method can be employed to avoid possible misunderstanding or confusion resulted from citation of one reference signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed at UE, comprising: receiving a UL grant from a base station, wherein the UL grant comprises information related to uplink resources allocated to the UE by the base station; obtaining a priority order, configured for the UE by the base station based on at least one of an uplink resource type, an uplink resource scheduling mode, and an uplink resource transmission mode, of a plurality of logical channels to which the uplink resources allocated in the UL grant are applicable; if a BSR carried in a MAC CE does not comprise buffer status information of a logical channel having a highest priority, then setting a priority of the MAC CE carrying the BSR to be lower than a priority of data from the logical channel having the highest priority; and according to the set priority order of the data and the MAC CE, sequentially assembling the data and the MAC CE into a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) for transmission on the allocated uplink resources.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for implementing load sharing. The method includes: for a congested first link on a first forwarding node, selecting, by a network device, a packet flow forwarded by using the first link; selecting a second link that may be used to forward the packet flow and that is not congested after available bandwidth of the second link is occupied by the packet flow, where the second link is a link between the first forwarding node and a second forwarding node; selecting a first hash gene corresponding to the second link; determining that a third link is not in a congested state after available bandwidth of the third link is occupied by the packet flow; and saving the first hash gene in a source node of the packet flow, where the third link is a link that is on the second forwarding node.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may integrate one or more first alarms reported by routers and Ethernet switches with one or more second alarms reported by reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) and optical transport network (OTN) network elements. Moreover, one or more troubleshooting actions may be performed based on the integrated first alarms and second alarms.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable recording media perform onboarding of a wireless extender in a wireless residential network. A mobile device, obtains a media access point (MAC) address or serial number from a wireless extender, and transmits to a residential gateway a request to add the wireless extender to the wireless residential network. The residential gateway performs a protected onboarding operation that includes transmitting a unique onboarding trigger SSID to the wireless extender, the unique onboarding trigger SSID including an identifier with part or all of the MAC address or the serial number from the wireless extender and being provided as a signal to initiate a standard WPS operation on the wireless extender. The wireless extender initiates the standard WPS operation for establishing a wireless backhaul link between the wireless residential network and the wireless extender.

Abstract: This application provides a resource scheduling method, an apparatus, and a system, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to meet scheduling requirements of data transmitted on different logical channels. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a BSR to an access network device, where the BSR carries first indication information, and the first indication information is used by the access network device to determine a scheduling mode corresponding to a first logical channel; receiving, by the terminal device, a first uplink grant resource sent by the access network device, where the first uplink grant resource is scheduled by the access network device based on the BSR in the scheduling mode; and sending, by the terminal device, to-be-sent data on the first logical channel to the access network device by using the first uplink grant resource.

Abstract: A communication system includes a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) grandmaster configured to provide a PTP clock reference via a PTP network, and a server connected to the PTP grandmaster via the PTP network, the server being configured to generate a frame event and a frame number for a frame synchronization based on a synchronization to the PTP clock reference using PTP.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a base station to transmit and for a User Equipment (UE) to receive repetitions of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH). Time and frequency resources for EPDCCH repetitions are defined together with restrictions in time resources to provide UE power savings. Time and frequency resources are also defined for repetitions of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission and for repetitions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. Methods and apparatus are also provided for the UE to transmit and for the base station to receive acknowledgement information in repetitions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUCCH).

Abstract: According to an example, product test orchestration may include accessing user-defined information of a product to be tested and identifying, based upon the accessed user-defined information, a set of devices on which the product is to be tested and a set of testing tools to be implemented on the identified set of devices to test the product. Product test orchestration may further include generating test operations for the identified set of testing tools to be implemented on the identified set of devices, executing the generated test operations on the identified set of devices, tracking results of the executed test operations, and generating a report of the tracked results.

Abstract: A communication method according to one embodiment is a communication method in which a first radio terminal executes a layer 2 relay in which a packet of a second radio terminal is transmitted between the second radio terminal and a base station in a layer higher than a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer in Layer 2. The first radio terminal transmits information indicating that the first radio terminal is capable of executing the layer 2 relay. The second radio terminal transmits a request for the layer 2 relay to the first radio terminal in response to receiving the information.

Abstract: Handling of asynchronous multi-carrier is discussed. In new radio (NR) fifth generation (5G) networks, the potential for provision of multi-carrier operations (e.g., carrier aggregation (CA), dual connectivity (DC), etc.) that include asynchronous component carriers (CCs) has been proposed. However, because of the asynchronous relationship network entities, such as base stations and user equipments (UEs) will manage the asynchronous CCs by obtaining timing offset information, either through derivation or direct signaling, and determining a subframe correspondence based on the timing offset relative to a reference CC. By determining the subframe correspondence to the reference CC, the base stations and UEs can accurately map communications over the asynchronous CCs to the appropriate subframes across CCs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for transmitting information. The method includes: a terminal device receives state indication information sent by a network device, the state indication information is used for indicating that the network device will switch from an ON state to an OFF state; and the terminal device performs cell selection according to the state indication information, so that the terminal device can learn the state of the network device and then transmit data normally according to the state of the network device.

Abstract: A method at a computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System, the method including detecting a traffic event at the computing device; determining no fixed roadside unit is available from the computing device; establishing an Internet Protocol connection from the computing device to a network node; and sending a traffic event message from the computing device to the network node, the traffic event message providing information for the traffic event.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining whether an error log is included in an operation log over a terminal; when the error log is included in the operation log, specifying a start timing and a stop timing of a script including the error log stored in a memory based on the operation log; and extracting moving image data output to the terminal during execution of the script based on time information related to the specified start timing and stop timing of the script.

Abstract: A method for performing Simple Storage Service (S3) seamless migration using index objects and associated apparatus are provided. The method includes: in response to a request of migrating user data of a user of the storage server from a remote S3-compatible server into the storage server, during an index stage, utilizing an index-object-based S3 migration management module among multiple program modules running on a host device within the storage server to create and store multiple index objects into a storage device layer of the storage server to be respective representatives of multiple normal objects of the user data at the storage server, and migrate respective Access Control Lists (ACLs) of the multiple normal objects to the storage server to be respective ACLs of the multiple index objects; and during a data stage, utilizing the index-object-based S3 migration management module to trigger one or more migration agents to migrate object data.

Abstract: The various embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for discovering User Equipment's over side link in device to device (D2D) communication. The present invention discloses new approaches for discovery and communication scheduling enabling optimum system performance with DRX alignment and meeting varied QoS targets. The present invention further addresses congestion handling during system overload situations. Further, the present invention discloses quality of service (QoS) scheduling methods that consider DRX function achieve substantial gains over existing methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling in a first time window in a first subband; monitors a second signaling in a second time window in a second subband; if successfully receives the second signaling in the second time window in the second subband, transmits a first radio signal in a third time window in a third subband, otherwise drops transmission of the first radio signal in the third time window in the third subband. Herein, the first signaling comprises first-type scheduling information of the first radio signal. The above method allows the base station to flexibly control a transmission time of each uplink transmission on unlicensed spectrum according to specific conditions, such as the result of LBT or the direction of beamforming.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, inter-cell interference may occur for one or more random access channel (RACH) transmissions. To mitigate the inter-cell interference, one or more based stations may use inter-cell coordination to exchange configuration information associated with RACH procedures. Accordingly, each base station may select cell-specific RACH configurations to mitigate the inter-cell interference based on the exchanged configuration information and transmit the cell-specific RACH configurations to user equipments (UEs) served by each base station. In some cases, each base station and the corresponding UEs may use the cell-specific RACH configurations for a two-step RACH procedure that includes a first RACH message transmitted from a UE to the base station and a second RACH message transmitted from the base station to the UE.

Abstract: A device may monitor a first search space (SS) corresponding to an active first component carrier (CC), and detect first control information (CI) that identifies an inactive second CC. In response to receiving the first CI, the device may activate the inactive second CC to make it an active second CC. The device may also set up a second SS corresponding to the active second CC, and may monitor the second SS to schedule the active second CC and receive a physical data channel. The first CI may also include additional scheduling information and a start time for reception of the physical data channel. The device may operate in a first bandwidth part (BWP) according to a first communication configuration associated with the first bandwidth part, and may switch to operating in a second BWP and to operating according to a second communication configuration associated with the second BWP.

Abstract: A device (e.g. a wireless communication device) may determine, according to a set of guidelines, a list that includes system information to be requested by the device as part of a system information request procedure. The device may determine whether to combine the system information request with an additional request associated with a random access procedure (RACH). In response to determining that the requests are to be combined, the device may initiate a unified RACH that combines the system information request and the additional request. The decision to combine the requests may be based on the type of the additional request, whether the list has been completed by the time the additional request is to be issued, and/or additional factors associated with wireless communications of the device. The system information request may be an OnDemand system information block request, and the RACH may be contention-based or contention-free.