47th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 77 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210368455 | LARGE-SCALE MIMO WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR MILLIMETER WAVE/TERAHERTZ NETWORKS - A large-scale MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless transmission method for millimeter wave/Terahertz networks is provided. In order to reduce the interruption of propagation in the millimeter wave/Terahertz band, a plurality of cells are combined into a wireless transmission network, the base station in each cell is equipped with a large-scale antenna array, and a unitary transformation matrix is used to achieve large-scale beam coverage for user terminals in the entire network. Moreover, in order to reduce the influence of the multipath and Doppler effects on transmission performance, received signals are synchronized for time and frequency in each receiving beam of a user terminal. The method allocates power for signal transmission according to the statistic information of synchronized equivalent channels, and gives an optimal power allocation matrix by iterative solution based on the CCCP (concave-convex procedure) and the deterministic equivalent method. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368456 | TRANSMISSION OF SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS - There is provided mechanisms for transmission of synchronization signals. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises transmitting polarized bursts of SSB in beams. One SSB is transmitted per each beam in each burst. Polarization of at least one of the SSBs changes between two consecutive bursts of the SSBs. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368457 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR QCL ASSUMPTIONS FOR CROSS CARRIER MULTIPLE DCI - The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or TRP. In one aspect, the apparatus can receive, on a first CC, first DCI from a first TRP and second DCI from a second TRP, the first DCI indicating one of a first set of TCI states and the second DCI indicating one of a second set of TCI states. The apparatus can also receive, on a second CC, a first PDSCH from the first TRP and a second PDSCH from the second TRP, a first time offset being between the first DCI and the first PDSCH and a second time offset being between the second DCI and the second PDSCH. The apparatus can also determine a QCL assumption based on at least one of the first time offset, the second time offset, and a QCL time duration. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368458 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - Disclosed are a synchronization method and a terminal apparatus resolving the issue of how to support synchronization of resources having different SCSs. The synchronization method includes: a terminal apparatus determining a type of synchronization sources, the synchronization sources including one or more combinations of: a base station in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a base station in the Fifth Generation Mobile Communication Technology (5G) network, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and a communication node; the terminal apparatus determining, from one or more synchronization sources matching the type, a synchronization source of the terminal apparatus; and the terminal apparatus synchronizing with the determined synchronization source. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368459 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK GROUPING BASED ON FULL-DUPLEX CAPABILITY - Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node (e.g., a user equipment) may receive, from a second wireless node (e.g., a base station), a downlink signaling message indicating a synchronization signal block (SSB) grouping based at least in part on a full-duplex capability and transmission directions associated with the second wireless node. The first wireless node may configure, and the second wireless node may perform, a beam search and/or a self-interference measurement to identify at least one candidate downlink and uplink beam pair suitable for full-duplex operation based at least in part on the SSB grouping. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368460 | LITE SL-SS (SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL) TRANSMISSION FOR ON DEMAND S-SSB (SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK) - A method of wireless communications by a transmitting sidelink user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a sidelink synchronization signal (SL-SS) within a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB). The SL-SS has an SL-SS pattern with a reduced number of physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) symbols, which may be zero PSBCH symbols. The method also includes receiving transmission in accordance with the SL-SS. The SL-SS may be transmitted at a time and/or frequency different from a legacy SL-SS. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368461 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING TIME, FREQUENCY, AND/OR PHASE INFORMATION - Timing synchronization information is communicated to a plurality of indoor communications devices supporting NB-IoT, e.g., indoor CBSDs supporting NB-IoT, from an outdoor communications device, e.g. a cellular base station supporting NB-IoT signaling using guard bands of a communications channel. An indoor device receiving the timing synchronization information from the outdoor device via NB-IoT signaling may, and sometimes does, process and forward synchronization information to other indoor devices, e.g. other CBSDs, which may be out of direct range of the outdoor device. In some embodiments, a plurality of outdoor base stations supporting NB-IoT receive timing reference information for distribution from the same NPT server coupled to a single reference source, e.g. an atomic clock. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368462 | Method for Redefining a Time Alignment Timer of a Wireless Communication Network, Corresponding User Equipment and Network Node - Methods and devices for redefining a time alignment timer of a wireless communication network include determining that a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection from the UE to a network node is operating in Connected Discontinuous Reception, CDRX, mode. In response to determining that the RRC connection is operating in CDRX mode, an initial message include a Protocol Feature Type, PFT, and a User Equipment Type and Software Version Number, UE-TSVN is transmitted, to the network node. In response to the initial message, a handshake message including the PFT, a downlink Protocol Message Type, PMT, indicating a Time Alignment Timer Definition, TATDEF, message type, and a Protocol Message Body, PMB, associated with the TATDEF message type that including one or more values for redefining a time alignment timer is received from the network node. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST CHANNEL CONFIGURATION AND BROADCAST CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method, apparatus, and system for generating and transmitting a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) are provided. A base station may perform a first scrambling process on PBCHs in a time period before a channel coding, and perform a second scrambling process after the channel coding. PHCH payloads and PBCH DMRS may provide information bits to be used in the scrambling processes. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPLINK SYNCHRONIZING IN MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER SYSTEM - A user equipment (UE) of re-organizing a timing advance group (TAG) is provided. The UE includes: a receiving unit for receiving, from a serving base station, secondary serving cell (SCell) configuration information which includes a first field and a second field, the first field including an ScellIndex of an SCell to indicate a removal of the SCell, the second field including at least one of the ScellIndex to indicate an addition of the SCell and a TAG ID indicating a TAG of the SCell, and a radio resource control (RRC) processing unit for performing the addition of the SCell after performing the removal of the SCell from one or more SCells configured in the UE, and for reorganizing the TAG by including the SCell in the TAG. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368465 | UE CAPABILITY DEPENDENT SYNC PRIORITY DETERMINATION MECHANISM FOR V2X COMMUNICATION - A method for sidelink data retransmission can include receiving a first negative acknowledgement (NACK) at a base station (BS) from a receiver user equipment (Rx UE). The NACK corresponds to an original transmission of sidelink data over a sidelink from a transmitter user equipment (Tx UE). The method can further include selecting one or both of the BS and the Tx UE to perform a first retransmission of the sidelink data to the Rx UE. A method of sidelink synchronization can include selecting at a UE a timing reference with a highest priority among available sidelink synchronization timing references according to a rule indicating timing references listed from high priority to low priority: gNB or eNB; UE directly synchronized to gNB or eNB; UE in directly synchronized to gNB or eNB; GNSS; UE directly synchronized to GNSS; UE indirectly synchronized to GNSS; and remaining UEs. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368466 | DEMAND AND RESPONSE FOR SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK (S-SSB) TRANSMISSION - A method of wireless communications by a receiving sidelink user equipment includes detecting a lite sidelink synchronization signal (SL-SS) transmitted by a transmitting sidelink UE. The lite SL-SS may have a pattern with a reduced number of physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) symbols. The method also includes transmitting a demand requesting additional SL-SSs from the transmitting sidelink UE on indicated resources. Another method includes receiving a demand for additional sidelink synchronization signals (SL-SSs) from a receiving sidelink UE. This method further includes transmitting the additional SL-SSs in response to the demand. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368467 | Wireless Communication Method of Dual-Registered Terminal Device, Terminal Device, and Network Device - Implementations of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method of a dual-registered terminal device, a terminal device, and a network device. The terminal device can reasonably transmit uplink information to a first network device and a second network device. The method comprises: the terminal device is registered in both a first network and a second network; the terminal device transmits a first message to the first network device, the first network device being a network device in the first network; the terminal device receives configuration information transmitted by the first network device, the configuration information indicating the terminal device to send an uplink message to the second network device within a first time period, and the second network device being a network device in the second network. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368468 | POSITIONING AND MEASUREMENT REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a positioning and measurement reporting method and apparatus, used for implementing a solution regarding UE positioning in a 5G NR system. The present application provides a positioning method, comprising: determining a measurement configuration message of a user equipment (UE), the measurement configuration message comprising UE-level measurement reference signal configuration information; sending the measurement configuration message to the UE to instruct the UE to report the measurement; and positioning the UE on the basis of the measurement result reported by the UE. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368469 | Geolocationing System and Method for Use of Same - A geolocationing system and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment of the geolocationing system, a vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices is provided. The vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices form a mesh network. Each gateway device includes a gateway device identification providing an accurately-known fixed location within the multi-space environment. Each gateway device includes a wireless transceiver that receives a beacon signal from a proximate wireless-enabled personal locator device. The gateway devices, in turn, send gateway signals via the mesh network to a server, which determines estimated location of the wireless-enabled personal location device with received signal characteristic modeling. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368470 | POSITIONING WITH MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS - A central node receives, from each of a plurality of access points providing access for user equipments to a communication network, a result of a measurement related to a position of a user equipment, receives additional information comprising at least one of an evaluation of the result of the measurement and a reference towards which the measurement was done, and calculates the position of the user equipment by combining the results of the measurements received from the plurality of access points using at least one of the evaluation and the reference. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368471 | PUCCH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR POSITIONING STATE INFORMATION (PSI) REPORTS - Techniques for communication by a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. Techniques can include determining a positioning state information (PSI) report to transmit, where the PSI report comprises positioning-related information, and selecting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource with which to transmit the PSI report, where the selected PUCCH resource comprises a number of resource blocks (RBS). Techniques can further include determining whether to transmit the PSI report using the selected PUCCH resource, based on: the number of RBS, a size of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted using the selected PUCCH resource, the selected PUCCH resource being configured with a capability to include both the PSI report and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK), or the selected PUCCH resource being configured to include only one or more PSI reports, and optionally one or more CSI reports, as a payload, or any combination thereof. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368472 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD - A communication device comprising: a plurality of wireless communication units configured to perform wireless communication with another communication device; and a control unit configured to estimate positional information indicating a position at which the other communication device is located based on at least one distance measurement value indicating a distance between the other communication device and at least one wireless communication unit and obtained through the wireless communication of each of the plurality of wireless communication units, wherein the control unit corrects first positional information among a plurality of pieces of positional information estimated at different times based on second positional information different from the first positional information among the plurality of pieces of positional information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368473 | METHOD OF SENDING DOWNLINK INFORMATION, ACCESS AND MOBILITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION ENTITY AND NETWORK FUNCTION ENTITY - A method of sending downlink information, an Access and Mobility Management Function entity and a Network Function entity are provided. The method of sending downlink information includes: receiving, by an AMF entity, a first notification message sent by a NF entity and configured to call a first service of the AMF entity; sending to the NF entity, by the AMF entity, indication information configured to indicate that a UE is in a connected state; receiving, by the AMF entity, a second notification message sent by the NF entity and configured to call a second service of the AMF entity; and sending, by the AMF entity, downlink information to the UE. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368474 | WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUSES AND METHODS - A method of paging a terminal, by a base station and via a relay node, wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the base station via the relay node. The method comprises notifying the relay node of a paging identifier for identifying the terminal at least in paging messages; and the base station transmitting a paging message for the terminal. The paging message comprises the paging identifier; the paging message is transmitted at a paging time for a destination identifier; and the method further comprises the relay node monitoring the paging time for the destination identifier for paging messages comprising the paging identifier. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368475 | PAGING METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclose are a paging method and device. The method includes that: a terminal device receives a paging message transmitted by an access network device, wherein the paging message includes first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate that delay in return of a paging response message is allowed; and the terminal device determines whether to delay returning the paging response message according to a current link status. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MULTICAST BROADCAST DATA STREAM - A multicast broadcast service controller is disclosed. The MBSC processes multicast broadcast data streams for transmission to access service network gateways or base stations. The MBSC includes a MBSC core processor for establishing time synchronization information used by the access service network gateways or base stations to synchronously transmit data streams. The MBSC core processor selects streams for transmission in a time diversity interval (TDI) and builds multicast broadcast (MBS) region content based on the selected streams and configuration information. The MBS region content includes timing synchronization information, resource information and MBS region content location information. A MBS region distribution module (MRD) transmits the MBS region content to the access service network gateways or base stations. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368477 | FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK BASED ON THE MODIFIED TYPE-II PORT SELECTION CODEBOOK - Frequency-selective single frequency network (SFN) operation is disclosed based on a modified Type-II port selection codebook. Within the channel state information (CSI) feedback procedure, a user equipment (UE) observing the CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource configured by the serving base station with two ports configured over multiple sectors of the serving base station may select a precoder from the Type-II port selection codebook which accommodates additional subband amplitude information. The additional subband amplitude information may include a subband dynamic SFN activation indicator. In such a CSI report selected from the Type-II port selection codebook, the UE may indicate to the serving base station both a wideband SFN activation/deactivation and a subband SFN activation/deactivation in addition to the subband phase information. The serving base station may then use this CSI report to activate/deactivate SFN operations in both wideband and subband over each of the participating sectors. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368478 | Internet-Of Things Narrowband Communications with Mobile Satellite - A system and method for communicating with an Internet Of Things (IoT) device via a satellite link. The method includes assigning a transmission mode to a physical channel, where the physical channel supports multiple timeslot durations and the transmission mode is selected from a single user (SU) or a multi-user (MU); selecting a timeslot duration from the multiple durations for a payload; obtaining, when the transmission mode is SU, a timeslot grant for use of the physical channel for the timeslot duration; and transmitting a burst including the payload, where the burst is transmitted synchronized with the timeslot grant when the transmission mode is SU and the burst is transmitted without synchronization when the transmission mode is MU. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368479 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR RESOURCE SELECTION APPROACH ADAPTATION - A method and a user equipment (UE) for resource selection approach adaptation are provided. The method includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first Sidelink (SL) transmission resource pool configuration and a second SL transmission resource pool configuration; performing a first resource selection on a first SL transmission resource pool by applying a first resource selection approach; receiving, from the BS, an adaption indication that a second resource selection approach is to be applied; performing, during a transition period between a time at which the adaption indication is received and a time at which the second resource selection approach is applied, a second resource selection on a second SL transmission resource pool by applying a third resource selection approach; and performing, after the transition period, a third resource selection on the first SL transmission resource pool by applying the second resource selection approach indicated by the adaption indication. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368480 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A communication system includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal is configured to reserve a resource within a resource group that may be allocated for a data transmission, and broadcast a notification signal including reservation information on the resource. The first terminal device is further configured to receive the notification signal, select a resource to be used from the reserved resource based on the reservation information included in the notification signal, and transmit a feedback signal including radio layer information by using the selected resource to the second terminal device. The second terminal device is further configured to receive the feedback signal including the radio layer information from the first terminal device, allocate a resource for data transmission to the first terminal device, and releases, when the feedback signal is received, reservation of the resource used for the feedback signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368481 | METHOD OF OPERATING NODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided are a method of operating a node in a wireless communication system and a device using the same. The method includes: connecting to a parent node through an initial access process; receiving, from the parent node, first allocation information related with communication with the parent node and second allocation information related with communication with a child node; and communicating with the parent node or the child node using a specific resource based on the first allocation information and the second allocation information. When the second allocation information indicates the specific resource as a hard resource that is always available for communication with the child node, the specific resource is used for communication with the child node regardless of the first allocation information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368482 | UPLINK BEAM REFINEMENT BASED ON SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL (SRS) WITH DYNAMIC PARAMETERS - Wireless communications systems and methods related to dynamically configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resources are provided. In some aspects, a base station may measure a SRS transmission transmitted by a user equipment (UE) and receive, using a receive beam selected based on the measuring, a transmission from the UE. In some aspects, a UE may transmit a SRS transmission; and receive, from the BS, a downlink control information (DCI) message including a SRS resource indicator (SRI) for use by the UE in selecting a beam to transmit to the BS. The SRS transmission may be transmitted using a SRS resource and may have a SRS parameter that is indicated in or related to a triggering message, or related to a transmission parameter of a communication between the BS and the UE. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368483 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING RESPONSE INFORMATION, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR RESPONSE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION ACCORDING TO TRANSMISSION CONDITIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for allocating a resource for response information transmission and transmitting according to transmission conditions in a wireless communication system according to the present invention comprises the steps of: setting a specific field value of a control channel depending on the allocation method by determining a transmission method or transmission quantity of data to be transmitted to a user's terminal from a data channel, a method of generating response information of the data according to the transmission quantity or transmission method, and an allocation method for indicating the response information resource; transmitting the data channel including the transmitting data and the control channel to the user's terminal; confirming the response information, which is transmitted from a resource allocated by the allocation method, for the data transmitted from the user's terminal; and determining whether the transmitted data area retransmitted according to the confirmed response information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368484 | Position of a Channel Occupancy Time Parameter in a Downlink Control Channel - A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating: a plurality of a channel occupancy time (COT) parameters of a COT of a cell; and a position parameter for the COT of the cell. A downlink control information (DCI) comprising a plurality of fields is received. The position parameter indicates a position of a field, of the plurality of fields. The field indicates a COT parameter, of the plurality of COT parameters. A transport block is transmitted via uplink resources of the COT with the COT parameter. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368485 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNALS - The present disclosure provides an uplink signal transmission method, a terminal, and base station. The terminal receives, from a base station, control information for an uplink scheduling, the control information including information indicating a reference starting position of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and transmits, to the base station, data based on the information indicating the reference starting position of the PUSCH. The information indicating the reference starting position of the PUSCH includes a starting symbol and a starting position preceding the starting symbol. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL BY USING MULTIPLE BEAMS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station (BS), physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configuration information including a list of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receiving, from the BS, a PDSCH media access control element (MAC CE) including information indicating activation of at least one TCI state in the list, identifying whether the PDSCH MAC CE is a MAC CE capable of indicating two or more TCI states for one TCI codepoint, receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including information indicating a TCI codepoint, and receiving, from the BS, data via a PDSCH based on the information indicating activation of the at least one TCI state, a result of the identifying, and the information indicating the TCI codepoint. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE SERVICES IN ADVANCED MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE comprises at least one processor configured to determine a first subcarrier spacing and a transceiver configured to transmit, to a base station (BS), random access signals generated with the first subcarrier spacing and receive a downlink control signaling comprising a physical (PHY) resource configuration that includes a second subcarrier spacing. The UE further comprises at least one processor configured to set the PHY resource configuration for at least one of uplink transmission or downlink reception. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368488 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are transmission parameter determination method and device, and storage medium. The method includes: acquiring multiple transmission parameter sets, where the multiple transmission parameter sets at least include: a first transmission parameter set, a second transmission parameter set, transmission parameters having a same type; determining multiple resource areas, where the multiple resource areas at least include: a first resource area, a second resource area; each resource area includes at least one of: time domain resource area, code domain resource area, frequency domain resource area, spatial domain resource area, reference signal resource area; sending information or receiving information on the multiple resource areas according to the multiple transmission parameter sets, which at least includes: sending information or receiving information on the first resource area according to the first transmission parameter set; and sending information or receiving information on the second resource area according to the second transmission parameter set. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368489 | CQI TABLE SELECTION IN SIDELINK - A wireless device receives a first set of control information indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table and receives a second set of control information triggering a channel state information (CSI) report. The wireless device transmits the CSI report including CQI that is based on a channel quality indicator (CQI) table associated with the MCS table indicated in the first set of control information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368490 | USER EQUIPMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a user equipment, an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. The user equipment according to the present invention comprises a processing circuit configured to: select G transmit beam groups from K transmit beams of a network side device; and sending information about the selected G transmit beam groups to the network side device, wherein each of the G transmit beam groups comprises N transmit beams, the user equipment is capable of simultaneously receiving downlink information that the network side device sends by using the N transmit beams, and K, N, G are all integers greater than 1. The use of the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the storage medium according to the present invention can improve beam selection process in a system that uses a beamforming technique. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368491 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION USING MULTI-LINK IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM - In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a first station (STA) may check the transfer failure of a first acknowledgement (ACK) signal for a first frame, the signal being received through a first link. The first STA may transmit report information related to the transfer failure of the first ACK signal to a second STA through a second link. Here, the report information may include identification information associated with the first link. The first STA may receive a second frame from the second STA through the first link. The first STA may transmit a second ACK signal for the second frame to the second STA through the first link on a narrowband. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368492 | Methods and Devices for Transmission of Control Data to a User Equipment - A method for transmission of control data to a user equipment in a mobile telecommunication system, wherein the method comprises sending control data to the user equipment in a data transmission, and performing, by the user equipment, a blind decoding of transmission elements within the data transmission in order to detect the control data in a data region in the data transmission. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368493 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - Disclosed is a method for transmitting Uplink Control Information. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a set of uplink control channel resources according to the first number of bits, the first number of bits being determined according to high-level parameters; receiving configuration information sent by a network device, the configuration information indicating an uplink control channel resource in the set of uplink control channel resources; determining first UCI to be transmitted according to a channel format corresponding to the uplink control channel resource, the number of bits occupied by the first UCI being less than or equal to the first number of bits; and transmitting the first UCI in the uplink control channel resource using the channel format. Therefore, the terminal device determines the UCI to be transmitted based on the channel format corresponding to the uplink control channel resource, so that the number of bits for actual transmission of the UCI is less than or equal to the number of bits of the UCI determined according to the high-level parameters, thereby improving transmission efficiency of the UCI. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368494 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, BASE STATION, AND USER EQUIPMENT - Provided in the present disclosure are a data transmission method, a base station, and a User Equipment (UE). The data transmission method is applicable to a base station and includes: configuring a plurality of grant-free transmission resource configurations for a UE; and transmitting the plurality of grant-free transmission resource configurations to the UE, to enable the UE to select one grant-free transmission resource configuration from the plurality of grant-free transmission resource configurations to perform uplink data transmission. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368495 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal is disclosed including a receiver configured to receive a physical control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration; and a processor configured to use different base sequences for a PUCCH between a first hop and a second hop if the PUCCH resource configuration indicates that intra-slot frequency hopping is enabled, a starting physical resource block (PRB) that is a first PRB in the first hop, and a second hop PRB that is a first PRB in the second hop, even when the second hop PRB is equal to the starting PRB. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368496 | PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL SCHEDULING FOR ACK-NACK FEEDBACK IN MULTI-TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION POINT NON-COHERENT JOINT TRANSMISSIONS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for scheduling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback and controlling the transmit power of the HARQ feedback. An example method generally includes generating a configuration for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource sets assigned to at least one user equipment (UE), wherein each of the PUCCH resources sets comprises PUCCH resources, transmitting the configuration for the PUCCH resource sets to the at least one UE, generating an uplink control reporting indication indicating the PUCCH resources associated with downlink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port groups, transmitting the uplink control reporting indication, to the at least one UE, for use in reporting uplink control information (UCI), and receiving at least a part of the UCI associated with at least one of the downlink DMRS port groups from the at least one UE via the PUCCH resources indicated in the uplink control reporting indication. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368497 | COMMUNICATION METHODS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE STATION AND ACCESS POINT - The present invention provides a new trigger frame dedicated to NDP feedback procedure. This NDP feedback trigger frame comprises a specific field allowing stations (non-AP nodes) receiving this trigger frame to identify it as being a dedicated NDP feedback trigger frame. Thanks to this specific field, a receiving station knows that a NDP feedback procedure has started and that a NDP feedback is expected by the access point. The present invention also provides for communication methods using this NDP feedback trigger frame, communication device station and access point configured to implement these methods, and also a wireless communication network comprising such devices. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal, which can efficiently utilize uplink frequency-selectiveness, thereby improving uplink spectral efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a first terminal device, an uplink multiple access scheme for an uplink control signal according to whether a time domain resource unit used for transmitting the uplink control signal is also used for transmitting uplink data; and transmitting, by the first terminal device, the uplink control signal by using the determined uplink multiple access scheme. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368499 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTIPLEXING UPLINK GRANT RESOURCES - The present application provides a method and device for multiplexing uplink grant resources, including: determining, by a network device, control information, where the control information includes uplink grant resources information and multiplexing manner information, where the uplink grant resources information is used for indicating uplink grant resources configured by the network device for a terminal device, the multiplexing manner information is used for indicating a multiplexing manner of remaining uplink grant resources, and the remaining uplink grant resources are uplink grant resources in the uplink grant resources except a part of uplink grant resources used for carrying data in one or more logical channels corresponding to the uplink grant resources; and transmitting, by the network device, the control information to the terminal device. The method for multiplexing uplink grant resources of the present application can improve a use efficiency of uplink grant resources. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368500 | Management of Resource Allocation and Notification Control Over RAN Interfaces - According to certain embodiments, a method by a master network node is provided for resource coordination with a secondary network node for dual connectivity. The method includes transmitting, to the secondary network node, resource coordination information for use by the secondary network node in coordinating resource utilization between the master network node and the secondary network node for a wireless device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368501 | STREAMLINING PROTOCOL LAYERS PROCESSING, AND SLOTLESS OPERATION - A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions to configure the UE for a streamlined transmission during low latency communications in a wireless network and to cause the UE to decode configuration signaling from a base station. The configuration signaling configures SR occasions for the UE. The UE detects availability of a UL data packet from an application layer, a size of the UL data packet being higher than a size of a TTI associated with a pre-defined slot boundary. An SR is encoded for transmission during one of the SR occasions, the SR including an indication based on the size. Control information is decoded in response to the SR, the control information including a scheduling grant based on the size of the UL data packet. The UL data packet is encoded for transmission using the scheduling grant. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368502 | METHOD FOR REPORTING ASSISTANCE INFORMATION, APPARATUS FOR REPORTING ASSISTANCE INFORMATION, AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - This disclosure provides a method for reporting assistance information, an apparatus for reporting assistance information, and a communications device. The method for reporting assistance information is applied to user equipment and includes: reporting semi-persistent resource assistance information corresponding to a periodic data flow to a network-side device, where the semi-persistent resource assistance information is used by the network-side device to reserve a semi-persistent resource for the periodic data flow. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368503 | HARQ PROCESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SLOT AGGREGATION - The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT). 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. A method of operating a terminal for a slot aggregation signaling is provided. The method includes receiving control information including slot aggregation information from a base station, receiving data in aggregated slots based on the slot aggregation information from the base station, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) corresponding to the data to the base station. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368504 | FREQUENCY-AWARE CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The described technology is generally directed towards a frequency-aware cellular communication network. A mobile device, or a radio access network (RAN) device at a base station in communication with the mobile device, can proactively notify a core network device regarding changes of a frequency band used for communications between the mobile device and the base station. The core network can use received notifications to adjust service provided to the mobile device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368505 | MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RECEIVING METHOD - In an operation in a license-exempt band (unlicensed band), the present invention contributes to the provision of a mobile station, a base station, a transmission method and a receiving method which suitably transmit and receive a signal. The mobile station | 2021-11-25 |
20210368506 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a communication apparatus allocating to one or more terminal stations, respective resource units obtained by dividing a predetermined frequency band for OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Access) communication with the communication apparatus; and notifying the one or more terminal stations of information which is distinguishable whether to perform uplink communication to the communication apparatus or perform downlink communication from the communication apparatus in each of the allocated resource units. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368507 | TRANSCEIVER DEVICE AND SCHEDULING DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives, over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a sub-band occupancy indicator indicating sub-bands determined to be available for a transmission, and a resource allocation indicator indicating resources included in the available sub-bands and assigned to the transceiver device for the transmission. The transceiver device further comprises circuitry which, in operation, determines the assigned resources according to the resource allocation indicator and the sub-band occupancy indicator. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368508 | ENCODING REPETITIONS OF A PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) - Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for encoding repetitions of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In some aspects, the disclosed methods or techniques include first determining that a first number of REs of a first PUCCH repetition used for UCI transmission is different than a second number of REs of a second PUCCH repetition used for the UCI transmission. Based on the determination, the UE performs one or more actions to provide a same mother polar code length for generating coded bits for each of the first and second PUCCH repetitions. The UE performs polar code encoding of information bits of the UCI for the first PUCCH repetition and the second PUCCH repetition based on the same mother polar code length. The UE transmits the first and the second PUCCH repetitions including the respective polar-encoded UCI. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368509 | Downlink Control Information (DCI) Size Matching - Systematic size matching procedures for downlink control information, DCI, provide exact instructions on how DCI size matching is to be performed in a NR wireless system, to meet predetermined limits for how many different DCI sizes may be monitored by a user equipment, UE. With these procedures, consistent and exact DCI size matching can be performed while keeping blind decoding procedures manageable, ensuring common understanding of DCI contents between the UE and the network. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368510 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING REMOTE INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT SIGNAL, BASE STATION AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for processing a remote interference measurement signal, a base station and a storage medium. The method includes that: a first base station determines configuration information of an interference measurement signal; and the first base station transmits the interference measurement signal according to the configuration information of the interference measurement signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING INTERFERENCE - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method that determines at least one threshold for detecting signal interference in a first plurality of segments occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system, detecting a pattern of recurrence over time of signal interference in a segment of the first plurality of resource blocks according to the at least one threshold, and performing one or more mitigation steps to mitigate the signal interference without filtering the signal interference where the one or more mitigation steps include at least one of transmitting signals out of phase from the signal interference, adjusting transmit power, increasing power in a resource block of a long term evolution communication session, performing beam steering, or changing time parameters for the resource block without changing to a new resource block. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368512 | APPROACH FOR MANAGING THE USE OF COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS BASED ON PERFORMANCE - An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifies the selected set of channels and provides that data to other participants of the communications network. The participants communicate over the set of channels, such as by using a frequency hopping protocol. When a specified time expires or monitoring of the performance of the channel set identifies poor performance of the set of channels, the participant selects another set of channels for use in communications based on additional performance testing. By selecting channels based on the initial performance testing and performance monitoring, the communications network adaptively avoids channels with poor performance. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368513 | FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION IN A WIRELESS ACCESS NODE - A wireless access node serves wireless User Equipment (UE) over radio frequency bands. In the wireless access node, radio circuitry wirelessly receives signaling from the wireless UE that indicates received signal strengths and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers for the radio frequency bands. Processing circuitry in the wireless access node selects one of the radio frequency bands based on the received signal strengths and the MIMO layers. The radio circuitry wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless UE over the selected one of the frequency bands. In some examples, the processing circuitry also uses sector locations of the wireless UE for the frequency bands to select the one of the frequency bands. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368514 | BASE STATION RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORK SLICES - A real-time slice manager at a base station of a telecommunication network can manage radio resources allocated to network slices. The real-time slice manager can receive input factors associated with one or more network slices, including loading information, latency information, radio conditions, and other input factors. If the real-time slice manager determines that a network slice is not meeting a goal, such as a goal defined in a Service Level Agreement (SLA), the real-time slice manager can locally adjust radio resources allocated to one or more network slices, and/or treatment of network slices in a transport link or core network, to increase the likelihood that the network slice will meet the goal. The real-time slice manager can thus dynamically manage network slices at the base station to efficiently use available radio resources, manage network functions in the core network and/or transport link, and meet goals for the network slices. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368515 | SCHEDULING ENERGY HARVESTING NODES IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - A system and method for optimizing power consumption of energy harvesting nodes in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, a system includes a network coordinator. The network coordinator includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver is configured to provide access to the wireless sensor network. The controller is configured to determine whether a wireless device that is wirelessly communicating with the network coordinator is powered via energy harvesting. The controller is also configured to schedule, based on a determination that the wireless device is powered via energy harvesting, the wireless device to communicate via the wireless sensor network using a priority timeslot of a superframe of the wireless sensor network. The priority timeslot is a timeslot occurring in an initial portion of the superframe. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368516 | COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE RADIO TECHNOLOGIES IN A SHARED FREQUENCY BAND - Novel techniques are described for coexistence of multiple radio technologies in a shared frequency band. Techniques described herein enable multiple radiofrequency networks using different radio technologies to coexist on a same carrier frequency by exploiting various frequency- and/or time-domain sharing of scheduled resources. For example, data signals are received for transmission over different radio networks according to different radio technologies (having different respective sub-carrier definitions and timeslot definitions). A coexistence resource schedule is computed from the communication resource grids define an allocation of sub-carrier and/or timeslot resources among the radio technologies. Radio technologies can then be generated from the data signals in accordance with the coexistence resource schedule and the communication resource grids. The radio signals can then be transmitted over the radio networks, with the multiple radio technologies coexisting in orthogonal components of a communication channel. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368517 | METHODS FOR DOWNLINK DATA TRANSMISSION AND RELATED PRODUCTS - A method for downlink data transmission and related products are provided. The method includes: a terminal receives downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling multiple physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), wherein the DCI contains transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state indication; and the terminal determines a TCI state which is applied to each of the multiple PDSCHs according to at least one TCI state indicated by the TCI state indication. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368518 | TIMELINE FOR INTRA-USER EQUIPMENT (UE) CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING AND CANCELLATION - A method for wireless communications performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a low priority (LP) grant for scheduling an LP uplink transmission in a slot. The LP uplink transmission may overlap a set of high priority (HP) uplink transmissions in the slot. The method also includes determining an uplink shared channel preparation time as a function of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) configuration and a UE processing time capability based on the LP uplink transmission overlapping the set of HP uplink transmissions. The method further includes determining a time period until an expected transmission time for each respective HP uplink transmission of the set of HP uplink transmissions scheduled based on a corresponding HP grant, the time period being a function of the uplink shared channel preparation time and a time duration corresponding to a reported UE capability. The method also includes canceling the LP uplink transmission before a symbol of the LP uplink transmission overlaps an earliest HP uplink transmission of the set of HP uplink transmissions. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368519 | RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND ACCESS NETWORK DEVICE - An implementation of the present disclosure relates to a resource configuration method and an access network device, wherein the method comprises: the access network device receives a plurality of time-sensitive communication assistance information (TSCAI) sent by a core network device, the plurality of TSCAI correspond to traffic attributes of a plurality of traffic flows; and the access network device configures semi-continuous scheduling resources for each traffic flow in the plurality of traffic flows according to the plurality of TSCAI. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368520 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING, BY TERMINAL, UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to the present disclosure, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving downlink control information (DCI); confirming whether the DCI is uplink DCI for an uplink or downlink DCI for a downlink; and transmitting, through an uplink control channel or an uplink data channel, uplink control information (UCI) according to the confirmation result. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368521 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station is disclosed, which is capable of appropriately configuring the timings of data assignment, data transmission and reception, and feedback for a case where the DL and UL sTTI lengths are different from each other. In this base station ( | 2021-11-25 |
20210368522 | TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) IN WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS - Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) in wireless environments may be provided. First, a Radio Frequency (RF) profile associated with a station may be received by a computing device. Next, a number of Transmit Opportunities (TxOPs) to use for transmitting data between an Access Point (AP) and the station based on the received RF profile may be determined. The determined number of TxOPs may then be provided to a wireless controller associated with the AP. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368523 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention is designed so that the transport block size will be determined properly in future radio communication systems. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a user terminal has a transmitting/receiving section that performs at least one of receipt and transmission of a transport block (TB) by using a data channel in a predetermined period, and a control section that calculates a total number of resource elements allocated to the data channel in the above predetermined period, by taking into account another channel that is allocated in the predetermined period. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368524 | COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A communications method and apparatus are provided, to schedule transmission of sidelink feedback control information after a sidelink feedback mechanism is introduced into a sidelink. The communications method and apparatus may be applied to the Internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, or V2V, or may be applied to fields such as D2D, intelligent driving, and intelligent connected vehicles. The method includes: A first terminal device receives first signaling from a network device or a second terminal device, the first terminal device determines that the first signaling is used to schedule transmission of sidelink feedback control information, and the first terminal device transmits the sidelink feedback control information based on the first signaling, where the sidelink feedback control information includes at least one of channel state information, a receiving response, or a scheduling request. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368525 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NETWORK DEVICE - The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, whether there exists a skippable resource in a transmission resource set according to reference information; and performing, by the terminal device, transmission of a target service on an available resource in the transmission resource set, and not performing, by the terminal device, transmission of the target service on the skippable resource in the transmission resource set. The transmission resource set includes at least one group of periodic transmission resources configured by a network device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368526 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULED UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK (as amended) - Method and apparatus of a terminal device and a base station for scheduled uplink transmission are provided in this disclosure. In a terminal device, an uplink grant from a base station is detected providing permission of data transmission from the terminal device. A coordination indicator identifying a resource coordination zone is transmitted to the base station along with the data. Then, controlling messages are sent from the terminal device for a further uplink grant to be issued from the base station, based on monitoring the resource coordination zone. Problem arising from channel interference can be resolved through the provided methods. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368527 | Method and Apparatus for Using Indication Information of Time Domain Resource Allocation - Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for using indication information of time domain resource allocation. The method comprises receiving from a network node indication information of time domain resource allocation for a first type of message. The method further comprises determining a location of time domain resource for a first type of message based at least in part on the indication information and/or configuration information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368528 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Included are a receiver receiving a PDCCH and a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH, and a transmitter transmitting, on a PUCCH, one or multiple HARQ-ACKs including at least a HARQ-ACK corresponding to a TB included in the PDSCH and an SR. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368529 | FREQUENCY-RELATED PARAMETERS FOR CONTROL SIGNALING - In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for facilitating wireless communication at a UE. An example apparatus receives information scheduling communication with a base station on a first set of resources in a first frequency range and on a second set of resources in a second frequency range. The example apparatus communicates with the base station on the first set of resources in the first frequency range using a first set of parameters applicable to the first frequency range. Further, the example apparatus communicates with the base station on the second set of resources in the second frequency range using a second set of parameters applicable to the second frequency range. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368530 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for determining a transmission bandwidth, a device and a storage medium. In the method, after configuring an unlicensed carrier for a terminal device, a network device performs channel detection on sub-bands on the unlicensed carrier, then determines, according to the detection result, which sub-bands are used for communication, indicates said sub-bands by means of first indication information, and then sends the first indication information to the terminal device; the terminal device determines, according to the first indication information, the sub-band on the unlicensed carrier for transmitting a downlink channel and/or downlink signal by the network device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368531 | HIERARCHY OF SCHEDULING REQUESTS - Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes transmitting a scheduling request (SR) to a base station (BS) to request resource allocation for data transmission, wherein the SR is selected between at least one coverage-enhancement SR configuration and another SR configuration at the UE for requesting the resource allocation for the data transmission and receiving an indication indicating the resource allocation for the data transmission. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368532 | TIMING PARAMETER MANAGEMENT FOR BANDWIDTH PART SWITCHING - Bandwidth part (BWP) switching may benefit a wireless communications system. Such BWP switching may include indication of one or more timing parameters used for time domain resource allocation. For example, the timing parameters may be indicated based on an index to a look-up table (e.g., a bit field in a control transmission). In some cases, one or more tables may be configured for a given BWP, and different tables may contain a different number of rows. The size of the bit field indexing the table may in turn depend on the number of rows. When switching from a first BWP to a second BWP, the size of the bit field may be based on the table of the first BWP, but the bit field may index the table of the second BWP. Techniques supporting improved timing parameter management during BWP switching are discussed herein. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368533 | Protection for Mode-3 V2X UEs in the ITS Band - A method for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a wireless network is provided. The method includes transmitting, by a base station, a resource grant message to a first user equipment (UE), the resource grant message identifying available resources for V2X communication by the first UE. The method further includes receiving, by the base station, a feedback report from a second UE, the feedback report indicating a quality of the V2X communication by the first UE. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368534 | TERMINAL DEVICE - The present disclosure includes a control unit that performs an uplink (UL) data transmission setting according to a radio resource control (RRC) message and a transmitting unit that transmits UL data according to the UL data transmission setting. The RRC message includes setting information of a plurality of configured UL grants (CGs). The setting information includes at least first and second CGs for each of at least one bandwidth part (BWP). The setting information further includes setting information related to transmission intervals for the first and second CGs. The control unit sets at least the first and second CGs for each BWP according to the setting information. The transmitting unit, when at least a part of the transmission interval of the first and second CGs overlap each other, interrupts UL data transmission of the first CG to perform UL data transmission of the second CG. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368535 | TECHNIQUES FOR SHARED CHANNEL BACKOFF PROCEDURES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first carrier associated with a first radio access technology, at least a first uplink grant from a base station. The UE may implement one or more backoff schemes. For example, the UE may transmit, using resources indicated by at least the first uplink grant, an uplink message based on a temperature of one or more components of the UE satisfying a threshold, the uplink message including a transport block (TB) indicating data, a buffer status report (BSR) associated with the data, one or more padding bytes different from the data, or any combination thereof. The UE may monitor for at least a second uplink grant from the base station during a first time period based on transmitting the uplink message. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SIDELINK RESOURCE IN NR V2X - Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including information related to configured grant (CG) from a base station, wherein the information related to the CG include information for an offset related to the CG and information for a period related to the CG; based on at least one resource pool being configured for the first apparatus, performing sidelink transmission to a second apparatus based on sidelink resources determined from among candidate resources allocated by the CG in the at least one resource pool. For example, the sidelink resources determined from among the candidate resources allocated by the CG are located after the offset related to the CG from the closest sidelink slot after the time when the system frame number (SFN) is zero. For example, the sidelink resources from among the candidate resources allocated by the CG are repeated with the period related to the CG. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368537 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, ACCESS POINT, AND STATION - A communication method disclosed in the present disclosure includes: receiving, by an access point, a sending request sent by a first station, and sending clear to send information to the first station; when the access point receives feedback information sent by the first station, allocating, by the access point, a channel to the first station, and allocating a channel to a second station based on remaining bandwidth; generating a first trigger frame, and sending the first trigger frame to the first station and the second station; and receiving uplink data sent by the first station and the second station. The present disclosure further provides an access point and a station that can implement the communication method. According to the present disclosure, bandwidth utilization of the access point and data transmission efficiency can be improved. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368538 | PARTIAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PROCEDURE - In an embodiment, a serving BS of a UE may transmit a PDCCH communication to the UE. The PDCCH communication triggers a partial RACH procedure, whereby a RACH transmission is performed. In some designs, the RACH transmission is for positioning, and positioning measurements are performed at the serving BS and (optionally) at one or more non-serving BSs. In some designs, measurement data based on the positioning measurements are conveyed to a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF), which performs a positioning estimate of the UE. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368539 | MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES FOR HIGH BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access message (e.g., msgA or msg3) using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selected based on the frequency band and subcarrier spacing utilized for the random access procedure. The MCS may depend on the frequency band and a size of the SCS satisfying a threshold. In some cases, a base station may select and indicate the MCS for the UE. Additionally or alternatively, a phase tracking reference signal may be transmitted along with a random access message to correct for phase noise. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368540 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE - A method for a random access (RA) procedure performed by a user equipment (UE) having a specific access identity value is provided. The method comprises receiving a mapping table from a base station; transmitting a first RA preamble to the base station; receiving a random access response (RAR) including a backoff value; setting a resultant backoff value by multiplying the backoff value by a specific backoff multiplier corresponding to the specific access identity value in a case that the specific access identity value is included in the mapping table and an indication corresponding to the specific access identity value is not a specific value; setting the resultant backoff value to the backoff value in a case that the specific access identity value is not included in the mapping table; and transmitting a second RA preamble to the base station after a duration indicated by the resultant backoff value expires. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368541 | CHANNEL ACCESS METHODS AND LISTEN-BEFORE-TALK SOLUTIONS FOR NEW RADIO OPERATION IN UNLICENSED BANDS - Methods, systems, and devices for channel access and listen-before-talk approaches for new radio operation in unlicensed bands and/or licensed bands. A gNB and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may operate in unlicensed spectrum. The gNB may perform listen-before-talk operation, and when successful, may send a downlink control channel with a slot format indication (SFI) to the WTRU. There may also be a handshaking procedure with an exchange of a request to transmit (RTT) and a request to receive (RTR). Prior to receiving the downlink channel, the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a first level, and once the downlink channel is received the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a second level. At the end of transmission, the WTRU may revert back to monitoring search spaces at the first level. In one example, the first level may be a mini-slot level and the second level may be a slot level | 2021-11-25 |
20210368542 | NETWORK CONTROLLED SIDELINK OFF-LOADING OVER UNLICENSED CARRIER - Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications in an unlicensed frequency band are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), a first downlink control information (DCI) associated with a first listen-before-talk (LBT) time. The UE determines a first sidelink transmission opportunity for communicating in an unlicensed frequency band at the first LBT time based on the first DCI. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368543 | CONTROLLING AUL TRANSMISSIONS WHEN COEXISTING WITH SCHEDULED UEs - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for restricting autonomous uplink transmissions by a wireless device in a wireless communication system such that wireless devices performing autonomous uplink transmissions can coexist with wireless devices performing scheduled uplink transmissions in a cell requiring Listen-Before-Talk (LBT). In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a radio access node, an indication of which subframes belong to a same channel occupancy within a cell that requires LBT and restricting performance of autonomous uplink transmissions by the wireless device based on the indication of which subframes belong to the same channel occupancy. By restricting autonomous uplink transmissions in this manner, the wireless device can coexist with scheduled wireless devices in the same cell. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368544 | Methods, Terminal Device and Base Station for Channel Sensing in Unlicensed Spectrum - Methods, a terminal device and a base station arc disclosed for channel sensing in unlicensed spectrum. According to an embodiment, a terminal device determines to perform physical random access channel (PRACH) or physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in unlicensed spectrum. The base station determines one or more listen before talk (LBT) parameters for the PRACH or PUCCH transmission according to a purpose of the PRACH or PUCCH transmission. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368545 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD, USER EQUIPMENT, AND NETWORK DEVICE - A method and a device are provided. The method includes: selecting, by user equipment, a random access preamble from a random access preamble set, and selecting a random access channel resource from a random access channel resource set; sending, by the user equipment, the random access preamble by using the random access channel resource; and receiving, by the user equipment, a random access response message on a first downlink bandwidth part; wherein at least one of the random access preamble set or the random access channel resource set corresponds to the first downlink bandwidth part, and the random access channel resource includes at least one of a random access channel time domain resource or a random access channel frequency domain resource. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368546 | Apparatus for a Terminal Device - An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause a terminal device at least to: transmit a random access information to a network device, wherein the random access information characterizes a type of at least one random access procedure performed by the terminal device and comprises a reference signal power information related to a serving cell associated with the random access procedure and/or a timing advance of a random access response. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368547 | TRUNCATED IDENTIFICATION INDICATORS FOR EARLY USER EQUIPMENT (UE) CAPABILITY RETRIEVAL - A base-station (BS) receiving a random access request from user equipment (a UE), followed by a connection request. The connection request contains UE identity information which may have one of multiple formats depending on whether the access request and/or the connection request indicate that the UE is operating as a bandwidth-limited (BL) UE, an enhanced coverage (CE) UE, or a UE that operates in neither the BL mode nor the CE mode. In the BL mode, the UE may transmit a truncated identifier that is sufficient for the BS to retrieve capability information for the UE prior to transmitting a resource grant to the UE. The BS may then configure the UE and BS to using a radio configuration optimized for the UE's capabilities and transmit the resource grant in accordance with the optimized configuration. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368548 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN MULTICARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatus for random access in multicarrier wireless communications are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided for physical random access channel (PRACH) resource signaling, PRACH resource handling, preamble and PRACH resource selection, random access response (RAR) reception, preamble retransmission, and transmission and reception of subsequent messages. A method for maintaining an allowed multicarrier uplink (UL) random access channel (RACH) configuration set by adding an UL carrier to the allowed RACH configuration set provided that a triggering event occurs and performing a random access (RA) procedure using the allowed RACH configuration set. A method for sending data in multicarrier wireless communications by determining a set of available UL carriers and selecting an UL carrier from the set of available UL carriers. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368549 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZATION OF RANDOM ACCESS IN A MULTI-USER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to the prioritization of devices taking part in a multi-user random access wireless communication. Based on some known conditions, devices that comply with the conditions are given preferential treatment during the random access period. The preferential treatment may refer to the eligible devices being allowed to access more resource units during the random access, or it may also mean faster access to the medium during the random access. By taking advantage of the methods described in the present disclosure, it is possible to assign higher priority to selected frame types and/or device categories in a multi-user random access wireless communication system. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368550 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a Random Access procedure that is based on one or more access control parameters that are specific for a predefined coverage level. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOURCE DETERMINATION, RESOURCE CONFIGURATION, TRANSMITTING RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLE AND RANDOM ACCESS - The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information of an initial active uplink bandwidth part (UL BWP) and corresponding random access resource; based on the configuration information of the initial active UL BWP and the corresponding random access resource, determining corresponding physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions; and performing random access procedure based on the determined PRACH occasion. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA PACKETS VIA A RANDOM ACCESS (RA) TRANSMISSION CHANNEL - A method for transmitting data packets through a random-access (RA) transmission channel shared by a plurality of user terminals uses and exploits a function F for assigning and distributing transmission resources F(u) to the user terminals, knowledge of the graph of which is shared by the sending user terminals and the receiving station in a preliminary step. During the decoding of the received packets, the graph {(u, F(u)} of the assigning and distributing function is exploited by the receiving station to minimize, or even to decrease to zero, the number of replica-location correlations required in case of failure of the conventional CRD-SA protocol decoding process. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368553 | METHOD AND NETWORK NODE FOR DETERMINING CANDIDATE SET - The method includes forming a first set of base stations, receiving random access channel (RACH) information from one or more of the first set of base stations for a first transmission time interval, determining the candidate set of base stations for the first transmission time interval based on the RACH information, the candidate set of base stations being in the first set of base stations, and controlling an operation of the communication network based on the candidate set of base stations. A network node is configured to perform the method. | 2021-11-25 |
20210368554 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE - A terminal apparatus, which is able to establish a connection with a base station apparatus via a two-step random access procedure by transmitting a first signal including a random access preamble and predetermined information to the base station apparatus and receiving a second signal as a reply to the first signal from the base station apparatus, acquires a random access-radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) on the basis of a radio resource having been used to transmit the predetermined information with the first signal, and executes reception processing of the second signal using the RA-RNTI. | 2021-11-25 |