Abstract: A CSI reporting method, a CSI reporting device, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The CSI reporting method includes: acquiring a resource set configured by a network side device, the resource set including a plurality of measurement resources; measuring a downlink reference signal for a plurality of transmission nodes in accordance with the plurality of measurement resources, to determine a target CSI-RS port set for CSI measurement; and performing calculation in accordance with the target CSI-RS port set to acquire to-be-reported CSI.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured with a carrier aggregation (CA) functionality and UE connected to a network via a base station that serves as a primary serving cell (PCell) providing a primary component carrier (PCC) to the UE. The UE determines a plurality of bands that are supported by the UE for use in the CA functionality, generates an individual band information element (IE) including band information for the bands, determines at least one representative CA combination having an order, the order indicating a total number of component carriers (CCs), the at least one representative CA combination forming a basis to extrapolate a plurality of CA combinations having the order based on the band information, generates a representative CA combination IE including the at least one representative CA combination and transmits the individual band IE and the representative CA combination IE to the base station.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a first wireless node, such as a user equipment (UE) or network entity. The method generally includes identifying different patterns of phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) tones for receiving a PTRS, determining when to change at least one of the different patterns of the PTRS tones from one symbol to another, and monitoring for one or more symbols of the PTRS, from a second wireless node, according to the determination.

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. The method includes configuring, by a User Equipment (UE) (100), a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session type as an always-ON type or a normal PDU type. Further, the method includes sending, by the UE (100), a PDU session establishment request message including the PDU session type to be the always-ON type or the normal PDU type to a network (200) during an initial PDU session establishment procedure.

Abstract: Computerized wireless transmitter/receiver system that automatically uses combinations of various methods, including transmitting data symbols by weighing or modulating a family of time shifted and frequency shifted waveforms bursts, pilot symbol methods, error detection methods, MIMO methods, and other methods, to automatically determine the structure of a data channel, and automatically compensate for signal distortions caused by various structural aspects of the data channel, as well as changes in channel structure. Often the data channel is a two or three dimensional space in which various wireless transmitters, receivers and signal reflectors are moving. The invention's modulation methods detect locations and speeds of various reflectors and other channel impairments. Error detection schemes, variation of modulation methods, and MIMO techniques further detect and compensate for impairments.

Abstract: An urban design pipeline automatically generates design options for an urban design project. The urban design pipeline includes a geometry engine and an evaluation engine. The geometry engine analyzes design criteria, design objectives, and design heuristics associated with the urban design project and then generates numerous candidate designs. The design criteria specify a property boundary associated with a region of land to be developed. The design objectives indicate a specific type of topology that is derived from an existing urban layout. The design heuristics include different sets of construction rules for generating designs with specific types of topologies. The geometry engine generates candidate designs that conform to the property boundary and have topological characteristics in common with the existing urban layout.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automatically mitigating potential network services attacks based on service usage patterns learned using Machine Learning (ML) comprising, collecting operational data indicative of resource utilization of one or more network services serving a plurality of connections and of a plurality of operational factors of the plurality of connections, detecting degradation of the network service(s) based on analysis of the operational data, applying trained ML model(s) to the operational data in order to identify negative operational factor(s) of one or more suspected connections to the network service estimated to induce the degradation where the one or more ML model is trained to predict an impact pattern induced by each of a plurality of operational factors on the resource utilization of the one or more network services, and disconnecting, at least temporarily, the suspected connection(s) from the network service(s).

Abstract: A method for filtering attack streams targeting a connectivity module receiving a plurality of incoming connection streams includes: determining a plurality of aggregates; determining a plurality of first measurement vectors; determining another aggregate resulting from the combination of a plurality of incoming connection streams during another time period; determining another first measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; determining an abnormality score depending on the result of projecting the other first measurement vector and projecting the plurality of first measurement vectors and then, if the abnormality score is comprised in an area of doubt regarding the presence of an attack stream determining a plurality of second measurement vectors, each associated with one of the aggregates; determining another second measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; and detecting the presence or absence of an attack by analysing the other second measurement vector.

Abstract: Provided is a position estimation method in which a measurement signal and a response signal are transmitted and received between multiple n wireless stations respectively provided with known antennas installed at known positions different from each other and a wireless terminal station provided with a terminal antenna, RTT, which is a round-trip delay time of the transmission and reception, and RSSI, which is a strength of received radio waves of the signals, are measured, and a position of the wireless terminal station is estimated. The method includes: obtaining, as the position of the wireless terminal station, a solution of simultaneous equations of an RTT evaluation function fti for evaluating the estimate value of the position of the wireless terminal station that is estimated based on the RTT measured between the wireless terminal station and the known antenna i (i=1, 2, . . .

Abstract: A method for controlling discontinuous reception in a wireless transmit/receive unit includes defining a plurality of DRX levels, wherein each DRX level includes a respective DRX cycle length and transitioning between DRX levels based on a set of criteria. The transitioning may be triggered by implicit rules.

Abstract: A Counting Machine for Manufacturing and Validating Event-Relevant IDs, tagged with both Trust and Confidence Scores, for Specific Entities (Individuals and Enterprises) and their Prosoponyms using a Managed Secure-Immutable-Nonreputable-Replicated-Verifiable and Fault-Tolerant Distributed Datastore via an Ensemble-Based Network of both Existing and Newly-Created Heterogenous Single- and Multi-Factor ID Validation Services, the Ensemble consisting of both Commercial Organizations (known as Members) requiring valid Entity IDs for use during various events, such as purchase transactions, and Service Providers (known as Partners) who supply technology services for ID validation (as standalone services or as licensed by Members). The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A system and method for positioning for line-of-sight and non-line-of sight environments. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), from a first Transmission and Reception Point (TRP) of a network, a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS); and sending, by the UE, a response to the network. The sending may include sending an indicator, the indicator indicating whether the UE has performed a measurement based on the Positioning Reference Signal, received via a line-of-sight path; or the sending may include identifying a first detected path and sending a plurality of measurements to the network, the plurality of measurements including, for each of a first plurality of paths, the arrival time difference relative to the arrival time of the first detected path, the first plurality of paths not including the first detected path, and the first plurality of paths including two paths.

Abstract: The present application provides a communication method and apparatus, and a device and a medium in a deactivated state of a secondary cell group. The method includes: determining signal measurement and/or timing of a terminal for a secondary cell group (SCG) and/or a primary SCG cell (PSCell) of the SCG when the SCG is in a deactivated state; reconfiguring the signal measurement and/or the timing according to first information if the first information is acquired; where the first information indicates a communication status between the terminal and the PSCell related to the signal measurement and/or the timing, or, the first information is instruction information of a network device received by the terminal.

Abstract: A system includes an orchestrator for a software-defined network and configured to receive a request for operation of the software-defined network, a software-defined network controller in communication with the orchestrator through a northbound application programming interface, at least one network element in communication with the software defined network controller though a southbound application programming interface, and a mutable network element configured to receive the request and instantiate a virtual function within the mutable network element to test the at least one network element in accordance with the request.

Abstract: Systems and methods for coverage enhanced reciprocity-based precoding schemes are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a base station for determining precoding information includes: determining channel estimates for at least a channel between the wireless device and another device; determining a plurality of precoding hypotheses based on the channel estimates; determining a figure of merit for each of the plurality of precoding hypotheses; and determining the precoding information based on the figure of merit for each of the plurality of precoding hypotheses. In some embodiments, this precoding method enables the use of reciprocity-based precoding down to a lower Signal to Noise Ratio, SNR, than what existing state of the art reciprocity-based precoding can offer.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention a UE may receive downlink control information (DCI), perform data reception and determine HARQ-ACK based on a result of the data reception, wherein the HARQ-ACK is reported through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on either: a first reporting type in which the HARQ-ACK reporting is performed for NACK only, or a second reporting type in which the HARQ-ACK reporting is performed for ACK/NACK both, and the UE may select one of the first reporting type and the second reporting type and a resource of the PUCCH based on the DCI.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting cyber-attacks using quantile regression analysis are disclosed. The method includes: identifying at least one hit quantile out of a plurality of quantiles, wherein the at least one identified hit quantile falls within quantile edges of a sample of traffic directed at a protected entity, wherein each of the plurality of quantiles is characterized by a probability distribution of at least one feature of a data stream, each of the plurality of quantiles having a respective probability estimate; updating the probability estimates of the plurality of quantiles when the at least one hit quantile has been identified; and when the probability estimate of the at least one hit quantile is above a threshold, taking an action to mitigate existence of a cyber-attack.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for identifying an aggressor device or an aggressor beam of an aggressor device. The embodiments further mitigate the impact of the identified aggressor device or the identified aggressor beam of the aggressor device.

Abstract: Provided are a method and device for acquiring grouping indication information. The method for acquiring grouping indication information includes: acquiring second-type grouping indication information, wherein the second-type grouping indication information comprises grouping manner indication information and information on resources in a group; determining a transmission parameter of a reference signal corresponding to the second-type grouping indication information according to the second-type grouping indication information; and transmitting the reference signal according to the transmission parameter; wherein a resource of the resources in the group comprises a transmission port resource, a transmission frequency domain resource, a transmission sequence resource and a transmission time domain resource.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting protocol for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in a wireless communication network. In some aspects, a BS may transmit control messages periodically and aperiodically that configure a UE to perform signal quality measurements and transmit signal quality reports. When the UE receives a periodic control message, the UE may perform signal quality measurements on both a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe and a non-MBSFN subframe of a frame received from the BS. When the UE receives an aperiodic control message, the UE may perform a signal quality measurement on either a MBSFN subframe or a non-MBSFN subframe. The UE may generate and transmit signal quality reports to the BS periodically and aperiodically corresponding to the received periodic and aperiodic control messages, respectively.

Abstract: The presentation invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing cable network power consumption. An exemplary method in accordance with one embodiment includes the steps of: receiving a message by a cable modem instructing the cable modem to reduce power consumption; increasing, by the cable modem, a buffer size of at least one of: (i) a cable modem downlink buffer included in the cable modem, or (ii) a cable modem uplink buffer included in the cable modem in response to receiving the message; and switching, by the cable modem, from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation after performing one or both of: (i) transmitting uplink data to the cable modem termination system, and (ii) transmitting downlink data to a wireless base station, said second mode of operation being a power savings modem of operation.

Abstract: This application describes resource unit indication methods, access points, and stations. In an example method, a resource unit allocation subfield in a trigger frame includes a frequency band range indication and a resource unit indication. The resource unit indication is used to indicate a multi-resource unit (MRU) allocated to a station. The frequency band range indication is used to indicate a frequency band range in which a resource unit (RU) in the MRU is located. For example, the frequency band range indication is used to indicate 80 MHz in which a smallest RU in the MRU is located.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for determining spatial settings during a random access procedure. A method for operating a user equipment includes determining a first physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble for transmission in a first PRACH occasion (RO) using a first spatial setting and determining a second PRACH preamble for transmission in a second RO using a second spatial setting. The method further includes transmitting the first PRACH preamble in the first RO using the first spatial setting and transmitting the second PRACH preamble in the second RO using the second spatial setting. The method further includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling a reception of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using a third spatial setting associated with the first spatial setting, or a second PDCCH scheduling a reception of a second PDSCH using a fourth spatial setting associated with the second spatial setting.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method and an apparatus for transmitting capability information of a receiving STA in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, the receiving STA generates capability information of the receiving STA and transmits same to a transmitting STA. The capability information of the receiving STA includes an HE capabilities element and an EHT capabilities element. The HE capabilities element includes a supported channel width set field. The EHT capabilities element includes a supported EHT-MCS and NSS set field. The supported EHT-MCS and NSS set field includes first to fourth subfields. The first subfield includes information on the maximum number of spatial streams that the receiving STA can transmit and receive in each MCS when the receiving STA is a non-AP STA that operates only at 20 MHz and is allocated to a first transmission bandwidth.

Abstract: The present application provides a method for sharing spectrum resource, device, electronic device and storage medium, which belong to the technical field of wireless communication and artificial intelligence. The method includes predicting traffic data amount of the at least two radio access technology (RAT) systems in a set first sharing period according to history traffic data of the at least two RAT systems and allocating spectrum resources in the first sharing period to the at least two RAT systems respectively according to the predicted traffic data amount. Based on the solutions provided by embodiments according to the present application, the utilization rate of spectrum resources can be effectively increased, and the user's traffic perception can be improved.

Abstract: Described are examples for monitoring performance metrics of one or more workloads in a cloud-computing environment and reallocating compute resources based on the monitoring. Reallocating compute resources can include migrating workloads among nodes or other resources in the cloud-computing environment, reallocating hardware accelerator resources, adjusting transmit power for virtual radio access network (vRAN) workloads, and/or the like.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine virtual WiFi data rate. An example disclosed herein includes a control frame receiver to capture control frames from a user device. The example disclosed herein further includes a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate for each control frame by dividing a bitmap of a control frame by an amount of time between the control frame and a previously captured control frame. The example disclosed herein further includes an interval timer to control a length of time that the control frames are captured before calculating the virtual bandwidth. The example disclosed herein further includes a virtual bandwidth calculator to calculate the virtual bandwidth after the length of time, the virtual bandwidth calculated by dividing an average bitrate from the control frames by the length of time.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and device. The method includes: A terminal device receives a reference signal from a network device, wherein the reference signal is not in a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource set, configured with repetition on; and performs radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement or beam failure detection (BFD) measurement on the reference signal. According to the communication method and device provided in this application, the terminal device expects that the resource configured by the network device for performing BFD or RLM is not any resource in the CSI-RS resource set configured with the repetition on.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving interference information relating to at least one of a scheduling granularity, a subcarrier spacing, a scheduler type, resource utilization, a number of active UEs, a number of active beams, an elevation and an azimuth angle of each of the number of active beams, a synchronization signal block index, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration associated with at least one neighbor base station (BS), estimating or predicting, based on the interference information received, an interference power profile caused by the at least one neighbor BS, receiving at least one of data information or control information, and decoding the at least one of the data information or the control information based on the interference power profile.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for monitoring a QoS parameter. One UPF apparatus includes a network interface that receives a request to monitor a QoS parameter for a data connection of a remote unit and a processor that modifies a downlink packet to include an indication for a QoS monitoring report. Via the network interface, the processor receives a QoS monitoring result from the access network node in response to the modified downlink packet and determines a value of the QoS parameter based on delivery information of the downlink packet.

Abstract: A system for diagnosing a session initiation protocol (SIP) trunk configuration may include one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors may be collectively operable to execute a diagnostics environment. The diagnostics environment may include an interface module operable to access data associated with a configuration including a set of configuration settings assignable to a SIP trunk. The set of configurations settings may be associated with respective layers and/or sublayers of a network connectivity model. A comparison module may be operable to determine a configuration status of one or more of the layers and/or sublayers associated with the SIP trunk. A display module may be operable to cause the configuration status to be displayed in a user interface. A method of diagnosing a SIP trunk configuration is also disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to encoding uplink communications based on a coding table including determining to avoid certain portions of a coding table that may result decoding errors, or using a modified coding table, to improve decoding results. In one aspect, a network can transmit, to a device, a configuration indicating whether to use a modified coding table for encoding uplink communications.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for allocating measurement resources. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device can determine the allocations of measurement resources to the RRM measurement and the beam recovery measurement based on priorities of the RRM and beam recovery measurements. The priorities can be determined based on the needs of the terminal device. In this way, the terminal device is able to find suitable beams faster and the interruption time for date transmission is reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments are a method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by means of an upper layer signal, information associated with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) starting location, and a plurality of combinations of channel access procedure (CAP) types; receiving DCI comprising one combination from among the plurality of combinations; and transmitting PUSCH on the basis of the one combination, wherein the plurality of combinations is a part of the information associated with the PUSCH starting location and collection of candidate combinations of CAP types.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for estimating timing and/or frequency of a wireless signal; the method including the steps: receiving a digitally modulated signal; extracting a plurality of signal samples associated with a short training field (STF) of a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) of an 802.11 frame; performing correlation operations on the plurality of signal samples to generate a predetermined number of correlation peaks; comparing the generated correlation peaks with a variable dynamic threshold; and calculating timing and/or frequency of the digitally modulated signal using the outcome of the comparing step.

Abstract: A method for controlling data transmission within a telecommunications network involves providing interconnections to both a core network and to at least one user device via a base station. A configurable network is defined interconnecting the at least one core network and the base station. A first network slice is selected responsive to use of the configurable network by a first application. A second network slice is selected responsive to use of the configurable network by a second application. Data transmission are provided between the core network and the base station over the configurable network based on the selected first or second network slice.

Abstract: A control information communication method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. A determination is made whether downlink control information (DCI) is used for multicast transmission or for paging. When the DCI is determined to be used for multicast transmission, the DCI is scrambled by using a single cell radio network temporary identifier (SC-RNTI). The DCI includes indication information and scheduling information, the indication information indicating whether a multicast control channel is updated. When the DCI is determined to be used for paging, the DCI is scrambled by using a paging radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI). The scrambled DCI can be sent to user equipment by using a first downlink control information format.

Abstract: An example method may include determining a multi-user packet error rate associated with communications from a client device to a host device, the multi-user packet error rate based on a number of packets in a multi-user communication frame with an error. The method may also include sending a trigger from the host device to the client device to communicate via a second multi-user communication frame, the trigger identifying a transfer rate based on the multi-user packet error rate.

Abstract: In a method for exchanging packets between first and second nodes of a packet-switched network, each packet comprises two fields settable to an idle value or measurement value. The first node transmits to the second node first packets having a filed set to measurement value. Upon reception of each first packet, the second node transmits back to the first node a second packet having a field set to measurement value. Upon reception of each second packet, the first node transmits to the second node a third packet having another field set to measurement value. A packet loss measurement is calculated as a difference between the number of first packets and the number of third packets.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving first signaling, the first signaling covering at least one allocation unit carrying Demodulation Reference Signaling, DMRS. Receiving includes performing Inter Carrier Interference, ICI, suppression for the at least one allocation unit carrying DMRS based on received DMRS. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating interleaved uplink-downlink transmissions in full-duplex using unlicensed resources are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication of a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, an indication of an interleaved configuration, the interleaved configuration corresponding to a full-duplex configuration including a first gap duration following a downlink transmission and a second gap duration following an uplink transmission. The example method also includes configuring at least one of uplink transmissions or downlink transmissions based on the indication. Additionally, the example method includes communicating with the base station via the interleaved configuration, communications with the base station including at least one of the uplink transmissions or the downlink transmissions.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for supporting communication, discovery, and use of time division duplex (TDD) configuration information between nearby cells are described. A first base station requests a UE to collect and report back TDD configuration information about another base station, e.g., a neighboring base station, from which the UE receives signals, e.g., broadcast signals above a predetermined signal strength threshold. In some embodiments, the requests are qualified based on one of more of: i) inter or intra operator network, ii) radio access technology (RAT) in use, or iii) frequency band. The first base station utilizes reports, communicating TDD configuration information pertaining to nearby base stations, obtained from one or more UEs, to manage interference, e.g., changing the first base station's current TDD configuration settings, generating a new first base station TDD configuration, and/or deciding whether or not to use a frequency band of shared and/or unlicensed spectrum or licensed spectrum.

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: This disclosure relates to collaborative optimization of random access channel configuration in wireless access networks. In one implementation, optimization of the random access channel configuration in one wireless access network node may be performed with assistance from other wireless network nodes by receiving operational parameters that may be relevant for random access channel configuration optimization but are not locally collected at the wireless access network node.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power indication methods and apparatus. In one example method, a terminal generates antenna transmit capability information, where the antenna transmit capability information is used to indicate whether a maximum transmit power value of each transmit antenna port of the terminal reaches a preset power value, or the antenna transmit capability information is used to indicate a maximum transmit power value of each transmit antenna port of the terminal. Then, the terminal sends the antenna transmit capability information to a network device.

Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus are disclosed, and the method includes: determining a radio bearer (RB) to which a first flow is mapped changing from a first RB to a second RB; and sending end indication information. Data packet disorder can be avoided by said method and apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT) for delay-critical services is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for performing a Minimization of Driver Test (MDT) by a first wireless communication node, includes: receiving a first message from a second wireless communication node; and determining at least one of the following: a data packet discard rate and a packet discard delay according to the first message, wherein the first message comprises a MDT configuration, wherein the MDT configuration indicates a measurement of at least one of the following: the data packet discard rate and the packet discard delay, wherein the MDT configuration comprises at least one of the following: a measurement period and a first Packet Delay Budget (PDB).

Abstract: Proposed herein is a method and device for setting limited RUs and MRUs in a WLAN system. More specifically, a receiving STA receives a PPDU from a transmitting STA through a preset frequency band, and decodes the PPDU. The receiving STA is an STA operating only in a 20 MHz band. The PPDU includes a preamble and a data field. The data field is received through resources other than the first RU and the first MRU among the preset frequency band.

Abstract: Described herein are supervised machine learning techniques for generating a first machine learned model, which receives, as input, values for a set of utilization metrics for a server computer and generates, as output, a service-specific health score for the server computer, and for generating a second machine learned model, which receives, as input, values for the volume of application traffic directed to a group of server computers hosting the service for each of several prior time periods and generates, as output, an application traffic forecast for the group of server computers, for a future time period.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are timing determination techniques for 5G radio access network (RAN) cells. According to various such techniques, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) scheduling command to schedule a DL data transmission from a base station. The UE may identify a scheduled slot for transmission of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to the DL data transmission based on a received slot of the DL data transmission and an applicable slot offset value. The applicable slot offset value may indicate a number of slots by which the received slot precedes the scheduled slot. The applicable slot offset value may be identified from a value set based on an indicator comprised in the DL scheduling command, or may be identified using the various other techniques described herein.