Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for an E2 node comprises: transmitting an indication message including a measurement container to a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC), wherein the measurement container may include at least one among: first measurement information of a digital unit (DU), the first measurement information including at least one of physical resource block (PRB) usage information for a standalone (SA) structure and PRB usage information for a non-standalone (NSA) structure; second measurement information of a central unit control plane (CU-CP), the second measurement information including information about the number of active user equipments (UEs); and third measurement information including at least one of packet data conversion protocol (PDCP) usage information for the SA structure and the PRB usage information for the NSA structure.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a measurement configuration indicating one or more punctured resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that can be used for measurements associated with estimating an interference plus noise covariance (INC) matrix at the UE. The UE may receive, from the network node, a reporting configuration indicating one or more INC matrices at the UE to be reported. The UE may transmit, to the network node, a report indicating the one or more INC matrices at the UE based at least in part on receiving the reporting configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node receives a first information block; receives a first signaling; and as a response to a behavior of receiving the first signaling, stops a first behavior; the first information block indicates a first reference signal set, and the first reference signal set comprises at least one reference signal; the first signaling comprises DCI, the first signaling is used to determine a first transmission state, and the first transmission state indicates a first reference signal; the first transmission state is applied to a first channel and a second channel. The above method temporarily stops the beam failure discovery and/or recovery request for the mismatched reference signals when a reference signal configured by RRC for beam failure monitoring does not match a beam used by a downlink control channel, thus avoiding the waste of resources.

Abstract: A mobile communication system is provided. In particular, a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system is provided.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, dynamic changes of a code block (CB) to resource element (RE) mapping type may improve decoding performance in some scenarios. A user equipment may provide an indication of a preferred CB mapping type. A base station may transmit a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on a first dynamic CB mapping type in one or more slots. A UE may receive the PDSCH and determine a second CB mapping type that is preferred by the UE based on a metric. The UE may transmit an indicator of the second CB mapping type, for example, as a one-bit or two-bit indicator, which may be coupled with a channel state information (CSI) report or signaled in uplink control information (UCI) independently from a CSI report. The base station may consider the indicator when selecting a new dynamic CB mapping type for the UE.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for establishing communication protocols between wireless devices in infusion pump systems. Infusion pump systems can include a number of components capable of wireless communication with one or more other components including an infusion pump, a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system, a smartphone or other remote consumer electronic device and/or a dedicated remote controller for the infusion pump. In order to ensure reliable communication of data, more than one component in a system can be capable of relaying data to another component.

Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of first communications resources allocated for a transmission of data by the communications device and associated with encoding parameters, determining that first uplink data is available for transmission, selecting the first communications resources for the transmission of the first uplink data, selecting encoding parameters different from the encoding parameters associated with the first communications resources, forming a transport block comprising the first uplink data in accordance with the selected encoding parameters, and transmitting, using the first communications resources, the transport block and an indication of the selected encoding parameters.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, Distributed Units (DUs) wirelessly receive test data from wireless access points and transfer the test data to a Central Unit (CU). The CU receives the test data from the DUs and estimates data throughputs for combinations of the DUs and the wireless access points based on the test data. The CU selects some of the combinations of the DUs and the wireless access points based on the estimated data throughputs. The CU exchanges user data with the user communication devices and exchanges the user data with the DUs in the selected combinations of the DUs and the wireless access points. The DUs in the selected combinations of the DUs and the wireless access points exchange the user data with the CU and wirelessly exchange the user data with the wireless access points in the selected combinations of the DUs and the wireless access points.

Abstract: A service continuity event notification method and apparatus for providing application layer information for triggering application context relocation. A subscription message is received from a first device, where the subscription message is for requesting to subscribe to a service continuity event notification. A notification message is sent to the first device in response to a condition for the service continuity event notification being satisfied.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device includes: receiving information from a first communication node; and decreasing a probability of selecting a second communication node, in communication node selection or reselection, in response to the information indicating a condition.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for configuring a retransmission in communications. In an aspect, a first device transmits, to a second device, a first indication of a plurality of candidate retransmission configurations. Each of the plurality of candidate retransmission configurations includes a transmission feedback configuration and/or a data retransmission configuration. The first device selects a target retransmission configuration from the plurality of candidate retransmission configurations. The first device transmits, to the second device, a second indication of the target retransmission configuration. The first device communicates with the second device using the target retransmission configuration. The example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a dynamical multi-level indication for a retransmission scheme.

Abstract: Provided is a method for method for encrypting log file data in a multitenant database. The method comprises receiving a request to secure data of a tenant in a multitenant database. The method further comprises obtaining a symmetric encryption key that is specific to the tenant. The method further comprises encrypting data of the tenant using the symmetric encryption key. The data that is encrypted is stored in the multitenant database. The method further comprises encrypting a set of log file entries using the symmetric encryption key. The set of log file entries are associated with data of the tenant.

Abstract: A control system of an autonomous vehicle for performing control for effective calculation by parallelizing operations between a plurality of modules of the autonomous vehicle includes the plurality of modules arranged in the autonomous vehicle and configured to perform a connective operation, and a module scheduling system configured to monitor operations of the plurality of modules, to parallelize the plurality of modules using an additional thread, and to control the plurality of modules to aperiodically operate using a pipelining method, and thus, processing capability per hour of a plurality of modules may be optimized by controlling parallel processing of the plurality of modules, and when an entire logic calculation period is longer than a sensor input period, an error due to delay that occurs in a data processing procedure between the modules is overcome.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit UE assistance information including UE capability report and measurement report to a base station, and the base station may determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring configuration for reduced-capability UEs based at least in part on the UE assistance information. The UE may determine whether a group common PDCCH (GC-PDCCH) communication indicates that the zone identifier is activated for an associated monitoring period. The UE may selectively perform one or more PDCCH blind decodes in one or more search space sets associated with the zone identifier during the monitoring period based at least in part on determining whether the GC-PDCCH communication indicates that the zone identifier is activated for the monitoring period. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method for in-band telemetry rate limiting is disclosed. An apparatus and computer program product also perform the functions of the method. Embodiments of the method include receiving a telemetry packet at an egress node of a data pathway in a data network. The data pathway includes an ingress node, transit nodes and the egress node and the telemetry packet includes a telemetry parameter where the telemetry parameter is for a node in the data pathway. The method includes comparing the telemetry parameter with a previous telemetry parameter from a previous telemetry packet received at the egress node prior to receiving the telemetry packet, and transmitting telemetry data from the telemetry packet to a network controller in response to a telemetry difference exceeding a telemetry parameter threshold. The telemetry difference includes a difference between the telemetry parameter and the previous telemetry parameter.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a control device, a service requirement latency of transmitting a data stream from a first network device to a second network device; obtaining, by the control device, a network device transmission latency on a forwarding path and a link transmission latency on the forwarding path; and determining, by the control device based on the service requirement latency of the data stream and the network device transmission latency and the link transmission latency on the path for forwarding the data stream, a required bandwidth for transmitting the data stream.

Abstract: An operating method of a communication device includes storing a first part of a synchronization signal received from a cell as a first signal sample in first and second consecutive synchronization signal periods, determining a synchronization signal-reference signal received power (SS-RSRP) estimation candidate within the first and second consecutive synchronization signal periods based on the first signal sample, and performing an SS-RSRP estimation operation on the SS-RSRP estimation candidate.

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards cellular network tuning using secondary system feedback. Network equipment can monitor both network performance and secondary system feedback indicative of secondary equipment performance. The secondary equipment can comprise customer manufacturing, processing, or other equipment. The secondary equipment performance can be correlated with network performance such as by correlating secondary equipment performance degradations with degradations of one or more network performance indicators. Network parameters can be adjusted in view of the observed correlation, to produce performance improvements of the secondary equipment.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining a default uplink beam to use for at least one configured uplink resource before receiving an uplink beam configuration, such as in New Radio multi-input multi-output applications.

Abstract: This application discloses a video data processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving, by an electronic device, a first data packet, where the first data packet constitutes a target video frame; and in a case that the target video frame is a damaged frame, determining, by the electronic device based on a packet loss rate of second data packets, whether to decode the first data packet, where the second data packets are data packets received by the electronic device within a predetermined time period before the first data packet is received.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to establish, utilizing a communication network, a remote collaboration session between first and second computing devices associated with first and second users, and to determine data to be exchanged between the first and second computing devices as part of the remote collaboration session. The first and second computing devices each comprise at least one of an augmented reality and a virtual reality computing device. The processing device is also configured to generate different logical network slices of the communication network, each logical network slice having a set of network characteristics associated with at least one type of the data to be exchanged between the first and second computing devices as part of the remote collaboration session. The processing device is further configured to communicate the different types of data between the first and second computing devices utilizing the logical network slices.

Abstract: A method of processing a signal received over a wireless link may utilize sharing of Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and Transport Block Size (TBS) data. At least one parameter is obtained including a sub-carrier spacing of a transport format. A modulation order and a transport block size may be detected, based on the at least one parameter. The signal received over the wireless link is then processed, based on the detected modulation order and the transport block size. An apparatus may perform the embodiments of the method to process the received signal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a base station (BS) is configured to: transmit traffic to at least one user equipment (UE) connected to the BS via a unicast scheme; based on information about a number of UEs connected to the BS to use a particular application, a particular service, or a particular session, or information of traffic to be used by the UE, determine whether to switch a transmission scheme of the traffic from the unicast scheme to a broadcast/multicast scheme; and as the broadcast/multicast scheme is determined as the transmission scheme of the traffic, transmit a message informing that the transmission scheme of the traffic is to be switched.

Abstract: A device may determine that a first geographical area satisfies an area threshold. The first geographical area includes an estimated location of a source of interference associated with base stations. A first plurality of vertices, of the first geographical area, are based on locations of the base stations. The device may determine a second plurality of vertices. The second plurality of vertices are closer to the estimated location than the first plurality of vertices. The device may provide information regarding the second plurality of vertices and may obtain magnitude information indicating magnitudes of the interference measured at the second plurality of vertices. The device may determine a third plurality of vertices based on the magnitude information. The device may provide information regarding a second geographical area, formed by the third plurality of vertices, to cause a search of the second geographical area to identify the source of the interference.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to enabling and disabling of codewords in multi-subframe grants. In particular, dynamic and subframe based enabling/disabling of codewords is enabled even if other control parameters including the resource allocation is performed for multiple subframes. For instance, signal from a scheduling entity to a scheduled entity comprises control information including the resource grant common for multiple subframes and a plurality of codewords for each subframe, and a codeword indication indicating enabling or disabling of one or more codewords for each of the multiple subframes. For each subframe it is determined whether a codeword from the plurality of codewords in said subframes is enabled or disabled according to the codeword indication and/or which codeword is enabled or disabled. The indication of enabling and disabling may alternatively be done by using modulation and coding scheme indicator values which are not associated with a particular modulation and coding scheme.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for collecting operational data across a plurality of radio access network (RAN) components. For example, the systems described herein can identify data signals that are tracked by one or more RAN components. Based on these data signals, the systems can define any number of network events that may be tracked by event tracking agents that are deployed on each of the RAN component(s). The RAN components may then provide a stream of event instances to the systems for collecting, analyzing, and otherwise utilizing the network event data that is locally tracked by the respective RAN components.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement enhanced sounding reference signaling for uplink (UL) beam tracking in communication systems are described. In one example, an apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuit to broadcast system information about one or more sets of uplink transmit time intervals and bandwidths available for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission from a first user equipment (UE), configure one or more UE-specific SRS processes for the first UE for uplink beam tracking, and configure one or more millimeter wave access points (mmW APs) to transmit a mmW signal to the first UE and receive a mmW signal from the first UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.

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, a configuration message that is associated with a full duplex transmission mode. The configuration message includes at least one indicator of a resource for channel measurement, where the at least one indicator of the resource for channel measurement is associated with a plurality of resources for interference measurements that include at least one resource for self-interference measurement. Additionally, or alternatively, the configuration message includes at least one indicator of a format for a sub-band report, where the format indicates that the sub-band report is to include at least one of reference signal received power, signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio, or a combination thereof. The UE may transmit, to the base station, at least one report based at least in part on the configuration message. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A method may include a first party computer program: (1) receiving, a first real-time communication comprising a first offer for a first amount from a second party computer program; (2) partially accepting the first offer, causing first funds to be transferred to a second party account from a first party account; sending a second real-time communication to the second computer program comprising a partial acceptance of the first offer and a second offer for a second amount; (3) receiving, from the second computer program, partial acceptance of the second offer and a third offer for a third amount, causing second funds to be transferred to the second party account from the first party account; and (4) accepting the third offer, causing third funds to be transferred to the second party account associated from the first party account.

Abstract: A method for power control for uplink transmission is provided. In an embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) for reference signal (RS) relationship specific uplink (UL) transmission power control includes transmitting, by the UE, a first UL signal according to a first power control set including at least one of a first target power, a second target power, a DL reference signal (RS) for pathloss estimation, a pathloss compensation factor, and a transmit power command (TPC). The first power control set is determined according to a first RS relationship between one first RS and a first UL signal.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an encoder neural network configured to receive a data item and to process the data item to output a compressed representation of the data item. In one aspect, a method includes, for each training data item: processing the data item using the encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the training data item; processing the latent representation using a hyper-encoder neural network to determine a conditional entropy model; generating a compressed representation of the training data item; processing the compressed representation using a decoder neural network to generate a reconstruction of the training data item; processing the reconstruction of the training data item using a discriminator neural network to generate a discriminator network output; evaluating a first loss function; and determining an update to the current values of the encoder network parameters.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique that converges a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4G system with IoT technology, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. In addition, the disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing communication in a wireless communication system composed of multiple cells.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for avoiding collisions between hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback transmissions and between HARQ feedback transmissions and other transmissions. In one example, a base station may configure resources for HARQ feedback transmissions such that the resources are exclusive of each other to avoid collisions between HARQ feedback transmissions. In another example, a base station may indicate resources for a user equipment (UE) to use for HARQ feedback transmissions such that the resources are exclusive of each other to avoid collisions between HARQ feedback transmissions. In yet another example, if a HARQ feedback transmission and another transmission are scheduled on overlapping resources, a UE may be configured to multiplex bits of the HARQ feedback transmission and the other transmission or drop the other transmission.

Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) can be transmitted to a network node incrementally to increase network efficiency. The CSI feedback framework can be enhanced by allowing a user equipment (UE) to report multiple sets of CSI feedback, where each set can comprise a rank indicator (RI), a pre-coder matrix indicator (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI). Since a different set may have a different sub-band, the CSI feedback framework can support the sub-band rank, wherein rank data from a wideband and the sub-band can be used by the network.

Abstract: An information processing method, a method for generating and training a module, an electronic device, and a medium are disclosed. The method for information processing may include acquiring a transmission parameter of service information in a network, where the transmission parameter is indicative of transmission performance of the service information in the network; and predicting transmission performance of the transmission parameter by means of a pre-trained network model, where the network model comprises a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) model that is acquired according to transmission path information of the service information in the network.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a source leaf device receives a packet. The source leaf device identifies a flowlet associated with the packet and a destination leaf device to which the packet is to be transmitted. The source leaf device may determine whether the flowlet is a new flowlet. The source leaf device may select an uplink of the source leaf device via which to transmit the flowlet to the destination leaf device according to whether the flowlet is a new flowlet. The source leaf device may then transmit the packet to the destination leaf device via the uplink.

Abstract: A communication method and apparatus. A terminal device determines, based on first information received from a first network device, that a second network device has first time information, where the first time information is time information having precision that is higher than precision of second time information of the first network device. The terminal device obtains the first time information of the second network device based on the first information. The terminal device obtains high-precision time information to improve communication reliability.

Abstract: Aspects relate to configuring and managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) feedback codebooks for use in wireless communication systems. The HARQ-ACK codebooks include priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks of differing priorities, such as Type 1 and Type 2 codebooks, and one-shot (Type 3) HARQ-ACK codebooks. In one example, a wireless communication device may be configured to obtain a set of HARQ-ACK codebooks that include priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks of differing priorities and a separate one-shot HARQ-ACK codebook. The wireless communication device may further be configured to process first and second physical uplink channels based on the priority of the first physical uplink channel and the priority of the second physical uplink channel, where one of the two physical uplink channels includes the one-shot HARQ-ACK codebook, and with the processing performed in combination with the use of the priority-based HARQ-ACK codebooks.

Abstract: a method for distributed edge computing (DEC) includes obtaining a request from a computational resource provider (CRP) offering computational resources of the CRP; validating the computation resources of the CRP; offering the computation resources of the CRP to a computational resource consumer (CRC); obtaining a reservation request from the CRC for a portion of the computation resources of the CRP; and installing CRC software on the CRP for DEC, where the CRP is configured to receive produced data related to the CRC software from a first localized device, the computational resources process the produced data, and forward processed data to a second localized device that has requested the processed data.

Abstract: The present invention relates a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for supporting a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set to efficiently use a wireless resource. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) through the communication unit, determines whether the PPDU contains an intra-BSS frame or contains an inter-BSS frame based on preamble information of the PPDU, and performs either a first operation or a second operation distinct from each other according to a determination result and a wireless communication method using the same.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a device including a functional circuit, a power monitor circuit, and a controller. The functional circuit can be configured to perform a function. The power monitor circuit can collect power usage data of the functional circuit. The controller can transmit the power usage data to a master control device, and receive an instruction provided by the master control device. The instruction is generated based on the power usage data of the functional circuit and related to the function. Based on the instruction received from the master control device, the controller can adjust the function performed by the functional circuit.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam reporting to facilitate multiple transmission and reception points, multi-TRPs, transmission schemes. A UE may receive, from a base station a configuration to report a beam quality based on at least one of a first reporting scheme and a second reporting scheme or a configuration of measurement resources for each TRP of a plurality of TRPs. The UE may report the beam quality based on the configuration or L1 measurements for multiple beam pairs and a recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme based on the configured measurement resources. The first reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beams and the second reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beam pairs. The recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme may be a non-coherent-joint transmission (NC-JT) transmission scheme and/or a single frequency network (SFN) transmission scheme.

Abstract: Systems and methods for relaxed inter-frequency measurements are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for relaxing inter-frequency measurements includes receiving an indication that frequencies should have relaxed inter-frequency measurements; and relaxing the inter-frequency measurements for the indicated frequencies. In this way, in some embodiments, the wireless device relaxes measurements on that frequency only when the network indicates that relaxed measurements may be applied to the inter-frequency. This implies that legacy measurement performance and mobility is retained. The measurements can be relaxed when the network is aware of spotty coverage on certain frequencies. Furthermore, the network has explicit control over the relaxation, e.g., the network can indicate how much the measurements may be relaxed, i.e., there can be a guarantee for a minimum measurement performance.

Abstract: A second wireless device may transmit, to a first wireless device, a feedback message indicative of a transition from a first compression state to a second compression state. The first wireless device may transition, based on a state change indication corresponding to the feedback message, from the first compression state to the second compression state. The first wireless device may transmit, to the second wireless device based on the transition from the first compression state to the second compression state, one or more first data packets that are previously compressed based on the first compression state or one or more second data packets that are uncompressed or recompressed based on the second compression state. The one or more second data packets being associated with the one or more first data packets.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for acquiring new data samples and for maintaining a set of data samples in a database, wherein the set of data samples are configured to form input to a function associated with a predictive performance, the method including obtaining at least one relevance metric (M), where the relevance metric is indicative of an increase in the predictive performance of the function when using a data sample as input together with the set of data samples compared to when not using the data sample, obtaining a relevance criterion (C), where the relevance criterion identifies relevant data samples in a set of data samples based on the at least one relevance metric, signaling the at least one relevance metric (M) and the relevance criterion (C) to a data collecting network node.

Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information, identifying a plurality of interferers, approximating a location of the plurality of interferers, and adjusting an antenna pattern of an antenna. The method can include determining traffic loads and adjusting the antenna pattern according to the traffic loads. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides buffer indication methods, resource transmission methods, user equipments, base stations and computer readable storage media. The buffer indication method includes: when a to-be-sent first and second BSR are present at the same time, determining that an uplink MAC PDU is incapable of carrying both a first and second BSR MAC CE at the same time, adding an indication MAC CE to the uplink MAC PDU and sending the MAC PDU with the MAC CE to a base station. The MAC CE indicates that a UE has a to-be-sent BSR; receiving information on an uplink resource sent by the base station to the UE based on the MAC CE; sending a to-be-sent BSR MAC CE to the base station based on the uplink resource; receiving information on a transmission resource of a corresponding type sent by the base station to the UE based on the to-be-sent BSR.

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses selection of a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for control information multiplexed on a data channel. A spectral efficiency associated with control information may be derived as a function of a spectral efficiency associated with data. A modulation order and/or code rate may be selected that is suitable for the spectral efficiency associated with the data. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be configured to determine a first MCS for control information based on spectral efficiency associated with transmission of data, and further configured to transmit the control information with the first MCS, the control information being multiplexed with data.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.

Abstract: A method and user equipment (UE) for obtaining power headroom information in a communication system are provided. The method includes acquiring information for a path loss reference, wherein the information for the path loss reference indicates whether the UE applies as the path loss reference either a downlink of a primary cell or a downlink of a secondary cell (SCell), triggering a power headroom report (PHR) if a prohibitPHR-Timer expires and a path loss is changed more than a threshold for at least one activated cell which is used as the path loss reference, and obtaining power headroom information for each activated cell, if extended PHR is used and an uplink resource is allocated for new transmission.