| 45th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
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| 20210352548 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM INFORMATION ACQUISITION, BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY AND CELL RESELECTION - The 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 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. An apparatus, a method and a system for system information acquisition, beam failure recovery, and cell reselection in wireless communication system are provided. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352549 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK NODE, RADIO TERMINAL, CORE NETWORK NODE, AND METHOD THEREFOR - In response to receiving from a source RAN node ( | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352550 | Gateway Coordinating Multiple Small Cell Radio Access Networks - A method of coordinating a plurality of radio access networks (RANs) includes aggregating, with a gateway, communications interfaces between a plurality of RANs and a packet core network through the gateway. A plurality of radio nodes (RNs) in each of the RANs is communicatively coupled to the gateway and to user equipment (UE) devices associated with the RNs in each of the RANs. The gateway also controls and coordinates mobility of the UE devices within and among the RANs. In addition, the gateway acts as a virtual enhanced NodeB (eNB) to the packet core network, thereby hiding the aggregated communications interfaces from the packet core network. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352551 | PREEMPT SINGLE RADIO VOICE CALL CONTINUITY BY MOVING TO VOICE OVER WIFI TO IMPROVE VOICE/VIDEO CALL QUALITY - A configuration is disclosed to enable a UE to preempt SRVCC by triggering a handover to a Wi-Fi network. The apparatus determines whether a Wi-Fi cell is viable as a first target cell, from a plurality of target cells, serving the UE to continue the active transmission on the Wi-Fi cell. The apparatus extends a TTT timer length based at least in part on the determination that the Wi-Fi cell is viable as the target cell serving the UE to continue the active transmission on the Wi-Fi cell. The apparatus initiates a handover to the Wi-Fi cell from the first network prior to the expiration of a TTT timer and prior to the first network initiating a handover to a second target cell, from the plurality of target cells, on a second network. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352552 | TECHNIQUE FOR PREPARING USER EQUIPMENT MOBILITY - A technique for preparing User Equipment, UE, mobility from a 4G network to a 5G network for a UE moving from a 2G/3G network to the 5G network via the 4G network is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by a network node and comprises triggering terminating one or more Packet Data Network, PDN, connections associated with the UE when the UE moves from the 2G/3G network to the 4G network forcing the UE to reestablish connectivity with the 4G network prior to moving from the 4G network to the 5G network. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352553 | HANDOVER METHODS AND APPARATUS - A connection between two UEs is identified by a single connection identifier. Different streams are transmitted over different wireless links with potential redundancy between streams. Initially a first WiFi link is used to communicate with the second UE. After the first UE decides it will handoff to a second WiFi AP it establishes a connection with a cellular AP and then communicates a second stream corresponding to the same connection. The first and second streams initially communicate the same content. The first WiFi link is terminated, but the second stream continues to communicate content. The first UE then establishes a second WiFi connection with a second WiFi AP and communicates a third content stream of the first connection to second UE via second WiFi link. The third stream initially communicates information also communicated over second stream. The cellular link is terminated. The second WiFi link is used to communicate content. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352554 | INTELLIGENT GROUPING OF NETWORK NODES FOR REMOTE INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the disclosed techniques include methods for remote interference management (RIM) implemented in a network device in charge of management in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving messages from a set of base stations, wherein each message from abase station of the set of base stations indicates that the base station is interfered. The method further includes grouping the set of base stations into a set of reference signal groups based on the messages, each reference signal group being mapped to a reference signal group identifier; and the method continues with sending a respectively mapped reference signal group identifier to each of the set of base stations. Embodiments of the invention also include methods to group base stations causing the interference. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352555 | CELL RESELECTION CONTROL METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT - A cell reselection control method according to one embodiment is a method performed by a user equipment in an RRC idle state or an RRC inactive state in an unlicensed band. The cell reselection control method includes determining a congestion level individually for a plurality of candidates that are a plurality of carrier frequencies belonging to the unlicensed band or a plurality of cells, extracting, from among the plurality of candidates, a candidate satisfying a selection criterion required for the candidate to be used as a serving cell of the user equipment, and selecting, from among a plurality of the extracted candidates, a cell to be used as the serving cell. At least one of the extracting a candidate or the selecting a cell is based on the congestion level determined in the determining. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352556 | SWITCHING WIRELESS NETWORK SITES BASED ON VEHICLE VELOCITY - The disclosed technology proposes a new methodology to include the effect of speed and direction of a UE into the threshold used for determining when to switch between a 4G UL connection and a 5G UL connection. The system can use a lookup table with various speeds mapping to varying thresholds. The system can use an accelerometer sensor or digital compass to determine the direction of the vehicle, such as heading away from or toward the 5G site, so the vehicle can switch sooner from 5G-NR to LTE and from LTE to NR, respectively. For C-V2X applications, latency is an important factor because 5G technology provides shorter latency than 4G; thus keeping the link on 5G is preferred when under good coverage. Further, the idea is not limited to UL, 5G and/or vehicle technologies, but can also be applied to DL direction, Wi-Fi and/or drone technologies as well. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352557 | RESOURCE POOL SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MOBILE TERMINAL, NETWORK SIDE DEVICE AND MEDIUM - A resource pool switching method includes: if resource pool switching is triggered, switching a currently used resource pool to an abnormal resource pool. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352558 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Controller Association - Apparatuses, systems, and methods for pairing/unpairing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to/from UAV controllers (UACs). A UAV and/or a UAC may initiate, based on a triggering condition, a paring/unpairing of the UAV to/from a host UAC and receive, from a network, a configuration update that may confirm the paring/unpairing of the UAV to/from the host UAC. The triggering condition may include at least one of the UAV moving from a location designated as controlled by the host UAC, the UAV moving into a location in which the host UAC is restricted from controlling the host UAV, and/or the host UAC losing signaling capabilities. The configuration update may include at least one of a cause code, an identifier associated with the UAV, an identifier associated with the host UAC, an identifier associated with an unmanned aerial system (UAS). | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352559 | METHOD AND AIRBORNE SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT WIRELESS COMUNICATIONS THROUGH TERRESTRIAL CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS WITHOUT ANY MODIFICATION ON GROUND - A method and system for Air-To-Ground communications allowing integration of the aircraft communication with a terrestrial cellular communications network. The solution is carried out in the aircraft so any existing standard terrestrial cellular communication network may be used without requiring any modification. The constraints due to the special aircraft conditions (speed and height) are efficiently solved, allowing broad interoperability with the cellular communications network, satisfying the increasing high speed data demand. Specifically, in order to solve the handover constraints the aircraft antenna will create at least two radiation patterns: one for maintaining the current connection with the serving base station and another one or more to search the next suitable best station for handover. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352560 | VOICE SWITCHOVER METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A voice switchover method, system, and electronic device are described. The voice switchover method may include sending, by a mobile phone or a voice assistant device, voice switchover request information to a VoIP server based on an operation of a user, and switching, by the VoIP server based on the request information, a voice call ongoing on the mobile phone to the voice assistant device near the mobile phone, for example, a smart speaker. According to this method, the user of the mobile phone can be free from the mobile phone, and continue a voice call by using the voice assistant device without interrupting the voice call. Therefore, the method increases voice switchover efficiency, brings convenience to the user, and improves user experience. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING COMBINED BROADBAND AND WIRELESS ORGANIZING NETWORK (SON) - Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352562 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RELAY SERVICE OVER MULTIPLE NETWORK TRANSCEIVERS - A wireless communication relay tests data throughputs over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) network XCVR and a wireline network XCVR. The testing over the wireline network XCVR comprises a test of the data throughputs through a Local Break-Out (LBO) router or an N3 Interworking Function (N3IWF). The relay selects one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR based on the data throughput testing and indicates the selected network XCVR to a user XCVR. The user XCVR exchanges user data with the wireless UE and exchanges the user data with the selected one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR. The selected one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR exchanges the user data with one or more data communication networks. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352563 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATING TO THE USE OF REAL AND/OR VIRTUAL BEACONS - Methods and apparatus relating to use of actual and/or virtual beacons are described. Virtual beacons are virtual in that an actual beacon need not be transmitted but a rather a virtual beacon transmitter at a desired location maybe considered to transmit virtual beacons. In some embodiments a set of beacon transmitter information for one or more beacons is supplied to devices in a communications system. The beacon transmitter information indicates transmission power and location of actual and virtual beacon transmitters as well as information to be communicated by virtual beacons. Devices with access to beacon information can determine based on the location of a wireless terminal whether the wireless terminal is within coverage area of a virtual beacon and report reception of the virtual beacon to the wireless terminal or a component of the wireless terminal which acts upon receiving an indication of beacon reception. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING TRANSFER OF MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a method and apparatus for supporting migration of mobile edge computing in a wireless communication system. A method, performed by a Session Management Function (SMF), of controlling a path between an Application function (AF) and a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from the AF, an AF request message including information indicating whether User Plane Function (UPF) modification is allowed; determining whether a modification of a UPF in the path between the AF and the user equipment is required; transmitting a notification including information associated with the modification of a UPF to the AF, based on a result of the determining whether the modification of the UPF is required; determining whether to wait for reception of a response message from the AF for a certain period of time, based on the information indicating whether UPF modification is allowed; and controlling a modification of the path between the AF and the user equipment, the path including the UPF, based on a result of the determining whether to wait. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352565 | NETWORK CONFIGURATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - This application provides a network configuration method and a communications apparatus. The method includes an AC sending configuration status information to a first access point AP, where the configuration status information is used to perform network configuration on the first AP, and the first AP performs network configuration based on the configuration status information sent by the AC, to implement communication between the first AP and a terminal device by using a 3GPP access mode. According to the network configuration method provided in this application, the AC may send the configuration status information to the AP. After performing network configuration, the AP may communicate with the terminal device through a 3GPP air interface. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352566 | ENHANCED HANDOVER PROCEDURE TO FACILITATE ROUTE CHANGE IN AN IAB NETWORK - An enhanced handover procedure is provided to facilitate communication routing changes in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In an IAB network a network node can be connected to the core network via multiple different paths, and when the path changes, (e.g., when an intermediate network node performs a handover procedure with another network node), messages can be sent to relevant network nodes informing them of the route change so as to reduce the number of protocol data units (PDUs) that are transmitted to network nodes that are no longer part of the communication path to the target network node. The network node that is no longer part of the communication path can also inform a parent node of which PDUs have been successfully transmitted to the target network node so that the parent node can retransmit the PDUs that were not transmitted successfully. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING OPERATION OF STANDALONE MTC THAT USES MULTI-NARROWBAND IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present specification provides a method for supporting an operation of a standalone MTC that uses a multi-narrowband in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method performed by a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, multi-narrowband configuration information related to a plurality of narrowbands defined within an NR bandwidth including a first system bandwidth related to an in-band MTC operation and a second system bandwidth related to a standalone MTC operation; and performing frequency hopping on the plurality of narrowbands, on the basis of the multi-narrowband configuration information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352568 | MOBILE OFFICE REALIZATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM - A mobile office realization method includes receiving a mobile office access request from a mobile office device, determining a target network of the mobile office access request, sending the mobile office access request to the target network, receiving, from the target network, response data of the mobile office access request obtained by the target network, and sending the response data to the mobile office device. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352569 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS FOR REDUCED CAPABILITY DEVICES, USER EQUIPMENT, AND BASE STATION THEREOF - The method at the user equipment (UE) includes first receiving authorization information, the authorization information including configuration data for reduced capability (REDCAP) devices in the communication network, second receiving system information from at least one first base station serving a first cell, the system information including information specific to a device category associated with the UE, determining access information for the first cell, based at least in part on the system information and the authorization information, and accessing the first cell, or identifying a second cell. The user equipment and the base station are configured to perform the method, thereof. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352570 | Method And Apparatus To Control Access Attempts From A Terminal For Wireless Backhaul - A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for controlling access attempts for wireless backhaul. In the context of a method, the method constructs an access request comprising an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) access indication. The method further determines whether the access attempt is allowed for a particular cell, and if so, determines an establishment cause value based at least on the IAB access indication. The method also causes transmission of the access request and establishment cause value. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352571 | ACCESS CONTROL BARRING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for access control barring are disclosed. The method may include a base station configuring, for user equipment (UE), a dedicated signaling for indicating whether to restart a designated timer. The designated timer may be a timer started by the UE for barring access control. The base station may also include send the dedicated signaling to the UE, so that the UE stops or continues to run the designated timer based on the dedicated signaling. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352572 | Network Slice Selection Method, Radio Access Device, and Terminal - A network slice selection method, a radio access device, and a terminal, where the method includes obtaining, by a radio access network (RAN) device, network slice information, sending, by the RAN device, a first message to a terminal, where the first message includes the network slice information, receiving, by the RAN device, a first access request message from the terminal after the terminal selects, based on the network slice information, first attribute information of a first network slice to be accessed by the terminal, and selecting, by the RAN device based on the first attribute information of the first network slice, a second network slice to be accessed by the terminal. The method enables an operator to flexibly configure a network slice, and reduces a communication latency and signaling overheads in a process in which a terminal selects a network slice. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352573 | Carrier Switching with Network Scanning - A network scan may be performed, and the best network may be selected in real time in the device after evaluating all available carriers whose network information is gathered by network scanning The network scan enables the device to fairly compare the connectivity of the available carrier services and can be used to improve the on-device network selection. The network scan may be further used in order to ensure the existence of a better carrier service before switching. Accordingly, this may reduce unnecessary poor switches to networks having lower quality connections and increase good switches to networks having better quality. The present disclosure provides for determining when to run network scan and how to use the scan results to make the cell network selection decision. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 5G SERVICE ICON DISPLAY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE ENFORCEMENT - A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a mapping table is transmitted to a user device. The mapping table includes, for each entry, an index, a frequency band, and wireless services available on the frequency band. Index information corresponding to a frequency band and wireless service available in a location associated with the user device is communicated to the user device. An icon associated with the wireless service is displayed on a display of the user device. A network device determines that the user device is using the wireless service to communicate via a wireless network and transmits, to a core network, an indication that the user device is using the wireless service on the frequency band. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352575 | METHOD SUPPORTING SEPARATE DATA TRANSMISSION FOR INDEPENDENT NETWORK SLICES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a communication system and method, in a system providing mobile communication services to terminals, in which the system supports a plurality of network slices, and if the use of some of the network slices is only authorized in a specific application group, the use of resources of the network slices by applications for which the use of the network slices is not authorized is effectively prevented, thus satisfying user experience and needs of the specific network slices. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352576 | BEAMFORMING - Antenna weights of a plurality of beamformed directions are determined. Transmission on the first beamformed direction is prioritized over transmission on the second beamformed direction, e.g., during beam sweeping. Such techniques may find application in discovery of an access node by a device attached to a wireless network. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352577 | SELECTIVE OFFLOADING OF CELLULAR SUBSCRIBER TO WLAN BASED ON CELL UTILIZATION - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to permit equipment of a subscriber of a mobile service provider that provides a subscribed service via a licensed frequency spectrum to access the subscribed service via a wireless access terminal according to an unlicensed frequency spectrum. A radio adapted to provide access to the subscribed service via the licensed frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the wireless access terminal resides within a coverage area of the identified radio. A current utilization of the identified radio is determined and a response to the request is generated according to the current utilization of the identified radio, wherein access to the subscribed service via the wireless access terminal is conditional according to the response to the request, resulting in conditional access. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352578 | LOCATION-BASED ADAPTATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE OPERATING PARAMETERS - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a local mobile country code (MCC) for a wireless communication device, accessing a home MCC list for the wireless communication device, and determining whether the local MCC for the wireless communication device matches any home MCC comprised in the home MCC list for the wireless communication device. In various embodiments, an operating parameter of the wireless communication device may be modified responsive to a determination that the local MCC for the wireless communication device does not match any home MCC comprised in the home MCC list for the wireless communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352579 | Determining Locations for Range-Extending Devices - Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining locations for range-extending devices. Signal strength between devices within an area may be measured one or more times over a time period. Based on the measurements, signal loss over fronthaul links and backhaul links may be determined for each range-extending device in the area. A predicted improvement in signal quality may be determined. A direction and distance to move each range-extending device may be determined based on a comparison with the fronthaul and backhaul signal qualities and the predicted improvement in signal quality. The direction, improvement in signal quality, and/or user preferences for devices may be used to determine an improvement associated with moving one or more range-extending devices. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352580 | Adaptation of Multiple Antenna Transmission - A wireless device may transmit assistance information comprising first configuration parameters of a power saving operation of the wireless device. The first configuration parameters may comprise a first maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers for a first cell group and a second maximum number of MIMO layers for a second cell group. The wireless device may receive second configuration parameters. The second configuration parameters may comprises a first number of MIMO layers for a first cell of the first cell group and a second number of MIMO layers for a second cell of the second cell group. The first number may be less than or equal to the first maximum number. The second number may be less than or equal to the second maximum number. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352581 | WAKE_UP SIGNAL CANDIDATE INDICATOR - A wake-up signal being for providing an indication to one or more flood of the communications devices that they should receive a paging message in one or more of a plurality of temporally spaced paging occasions, and transmitting a candidate indicator message to the one or more communications devices in advance of the wake-up signal search space, the candidate indicator message indicating one or more characteristics of the wake-up signal by which the wake-up signal may be transmitted as one or more candidates, wherein the one or more candidates are to be searched for detection of the wake-up signal by the one or more communication devices. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352582 | Wake Up Signal for Cellular Communication in Unlicensed Spectrum - This disclosure relates to using a wake up signal in conjunction with cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum. A cellular base station may provide a wake up signal on an unlicensed frequency channel after successful completion of a listen-before-talk procedure. The wake up signal may include a preamble configured for coherent detection, and information indicating channel occupancy time for a cellular communication by the cellular base station and a cell identifier for the cellular base station. A wireless device may monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for a wake up signal, and may determine whether to monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for control channel signaling based on whether a wake up signal is received, and potentially also based on the contents of the wake up signal if a wake up signal is received. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352583 | Cancellation Indication and Cell Deactivation - A wireless device may receive cancellation indication configuration parameters and a second configuration parameter. The cancellation indication configuration parameters may comprise a first configuration parameter indicating a first RNTI. The second configuration parameter may indicate a value of a deactivation timer of a secondary cell. The wireless device may receive a cancellation indication DCI associated with the first RNTI. The cancellation indication DCI may indicate cancellation of an uplink transmission on the secondary cell. Based on receiving the cancellation indication DCI, the wireless device may start the deactivation timer with the value. The wireless device may deactivate the secondary cell based on the deactivation timer expiring. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352584 | Power Management for Wireless Networks - Embodiments provide techniques for device power management in wireless networks. For instance, an apparatus may include a power management module, and a transceiver module. The power management module determines a beacon interval and a wakeup interval. The transceiver module to send a transmission to one or more remote devices that includes the beacon interval and the wakeup interval. The beacon interval indicates a time interval between consecutive beacon transmissions of the apparatus, and the wakeup interval indicates a time interval between when the apparatus receives two consecutive beacons from a peer device. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352585 | LOW ENERGY POWER SAVING FAST RECONNECT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Systems, methods, and devices suspend and establish wireless communications connections. Methods include determining at least a first wireless communications device should be transitioned to a low power mode, and transitioning, using second logic, first logic of the first wireless communications device to the low power mode. The first logic implements a host stack of a wireless communications protocol, the second logic implements a controller stack of the wireless communications protocol, and the transitioning to the low power mode includes suspending a communications connection between the first wireless communications device and a second wireless communications device. Methods also include transitioning the first logic of the first wireless communications device to an active mode. The transitioning to the active mode reestablishes the communications connection between the first wireless communications device and a second wireless communications device. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352586 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Various aspects pertaining to apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects pertain to wireless communication between various apparatuses, such as an access point (AP) and a station (STA). The AP may have a radio, and the STA may have a first radio and a second radio. The radios may have various power states. Some aspects pertain to negotiation of various communication parameters. Some aspects pertain to communication of a packet and execution of various related operations. Some aspects pertain to certain uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) communications. Some aspects pertain to termination or teardown of the negotiated parameters. The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352587 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a first receiver which, in operation, receives a downlink data frame from a base station; a decoder which, in operation, decodes data included in the received downlink data frame; a signal generator which, when the decoded data indicates that there is no buffered traffic for the communication apparatus, generates an uplink frame that includes acknowledgement information and a wake-up radio (WUR) mode request indicating a request to transit to the WUR mode from a primary connectivity radio (PCR) mode; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the uplink frame to the base station. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352588 | METHOD FOR UE POWER SAVING - Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to improve terminal power consumption. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a power configuration from a network node. The method also includes modifying a power configuration based on the power configuration instruction. In another exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a power configuration instruction based on terminal assistance information to a terminal, wherein the terminal is configured to modify a power configuration based on the power configuration instruction. The method also includes receiving updated terminal assistance information from the terminal. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352589 | IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAFFIC COEXISTENCE FOR COLLOCATED TRANSCEIVERS INCLUDING BLUETOOTH TRANSCEIVERS - Systems, methods, and devices enable coexistence of traffic for collocated transceivers. Methods may include generating, using a processing device, a target-wake-time (TWT) agreement, the TWT agreement being determined based on availability of a first transceiver and a plurality of wireless devices. The methods may also include generating, using the processing device, a medium access schedule for the first transceiver based on a transmission parameter of a second transceiver, the second transceiver being collocated with the first transceiver and sharing a transmission medium with the first transceiver, and the medium access schedule being a TWT schedule. The methods may further include transmitting the TWT schedule to the plurality of wireless devices, the TWT schedule identifying a plurality of wake times and a plurality of sleep times to the plurality of wireless devices. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352590 | VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING (V2X) MESSAGE MONITORING - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring for one or more vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages based on a first monitoring interval, and determining a second monitoring interval based on a UE characteristic, an environment characteristic, or a combination thereof. The method may also include monitoring for the one or more V2X messages based on the second monitoring interval. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352591 | Power Control Method and Apparatus - A method includes obtaining a power control parameter for a sounding reference signal (SRS), where the power control parameter for the SRS includes at least one of a target power parameter value for the SRS, a path loss compensation factor, and a closed-loop power control parameter value for the SRS. The method further includes determining transmit power for the SRS on a first carrier based on the power control parameter for the SRS. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352592 | POWER-EFFICIENT BODY PROXIMITY SENSING FOR mmWAVE SYSTEMS - A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to generate new radio (NR) communications in millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies. Body proximity sensing (BPS) operations can be performed to determine whether a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) event is triggered. A safe transmit power level associated with the one or more bands can then be used to provide the NR communications. Additionally, determinations of whether various conditions are satisfied to suspend the BPS operations for a period can be evaluated and implemented. The BPS can be configured such that a BPS period of the BPS operations are aligned with a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle at a beginning of a DRX on-duration of a DRX cycle, wherein the one or more conditions comprise a DRX idle time or state. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352593 | APPARATUS AND METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a device and method for a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: acquire the current three-dimensional spatial location of a user equipment, and determine a resource for the user equipment according to information showing a mapping relationship at least between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources. According to an aspect of the embodiment of the present disclosure, time delay can be decreased and transmission performance can be optimized by pre-establishing a mapping relationship between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources and assigning to the user equipment an uplink/downlink time-frequency resource on the basis of the mapping relationship. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352594 | CLUTTER REFLECTION MITIGATION IN FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION - A clutter-induced interference at a base station is mitigated through a command from the base station to a user equipment that commands the user equipment to transmit using an increased transmit power. During acquisition, the command may comprise a SIB. During a connected mode of operation, the command may comprise a TPC message, assistance information, an RRC message, or a DCI message. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A POWER HEADROOM REPORT OF A UE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that a first message to perform a handover from a first base station to a second base station is received, from the first base station, performing a medium access control (MAC) reset, wherein performing the MAC reset includes stopping a power headroom report (PHR) periodic timer; receiving, from the second base station, first information related to a first uplink resource; in case that the first uplink resource is first allocated for a new transmission since the MAC reset is performed, starting the stopped PHR periodic timer; transmitting, to the second base station, a second message to confirm the handover using the first uplink resource; triggering a PHR, in case that the started PHR periodic timer expires; receiving, from the second base station, second information related to a second uplink resource; and transmitting, to the second base station, the triggered PHR using the second uplink resource. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352596 | COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS - This application provides a communications method and apparatus, to improve uplink transmission performance. The method includes determining, by a terminal device, capability indication information and sending the capability indication information to a network device. The capability indication information is used to determine a power scaling factor, the power scaling factor is a ratio of a sum of actual transmit power of n non-zero antenna ports to channel transmit power, and a maximum value of the channel transmit power is a rated maximum transmit power of a system. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352597 | TECHNIQUE FOR SIDELINK RADIO COMMUNICATION - A technique for transmitting and receiving a sequence of symbols on a sidelink, SL, in a transmission time interval, TTI, is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, an automatic gain control, AGC, is performed for the SL based on at least one first symbol of the SL in the TTI. Based on the AGC, SL control information, SCI, encoded in at least one second symbol of the SL in the TTI is received. Data encoded in at least one third symbol of the SL in the TTI is received based on the SCI. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352598 | CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION AND ELIMINATION - Carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation is effected by transmission of contemporaneous bit patterns, detectable by a receiver. By analysis of periodicity of bit error occurrences at the receiver, a beating period caused by interference between the two transmitters can be identified. From this beating period, a measure of CFO can be obtained. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352599 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication; and a control unit ( | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352600 | VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE - Methods and apparatuses are provided for Vehicle-to-Everything synchronization for a first terminal. The method is implemented by the first terminal and includes: determining a transmission period for transmitting the sidelink synchronization signal under a first network signal condition as a first period; in response to that a second network signal condition is detected, adjusting the transmission period for transmitting the sidelink synchronization signal based on a set rule to obtain a second period after the adjustment, where the second network signal condition is different from the first network signal condition, and the second period is different from the first period; and transmitting the sidelink synchronization signal to one or more second terminals according to the second period, for a Vehicle-to-Everything synchronization by the one or more second terminals based on the received sidelink synchronization signal, where the one or more second terminals are respective receiving ends for the sidelink synchronization signal. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352601 | ENERGY PER RESOURCE ELEMENT RATIO FOR SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK SYMBOLS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may identify an energy per resource element (EPRE) ratio between a synchronization signal block (SSB) symbol containing a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and an SSB symbol containing a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), or both, based on an operating band for the UE, a bandwidth of the SSB symbol containing the PSS and the SSB symbol containing the SSB, the PBCH, or both. The EPRE ratio may be based on maximum regulatory equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) limits, maximum regulatory power spectral density (PSD) limits for the band, or both. The EPRE ratios may be different for different SSB symbols, when different SSB symbols have different bandwidths. A base station may configure and transmit, and a UE may receive, the SSB according to the identified EPRE ratio. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352602 | TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION, AND SYSTEM - A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives by higher layer signaling in a first cell, when a plurality of cells including the first cell and a second cell are configured, information related to a synchronization signal block index indicated by using a bitmap. The terminal also includes a controller that controls a reception of a synchronization signal block based on the information related to the synchronization signal block index. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME AND FREQUENCY TRACKING IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - 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 present invention provides a method and an apparatus which can achieve accurate time and frequency synchronization while reducing system load, in line with the design requirements for a 5G communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method for acquiring time and frequency synchronization by a terminal in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first synchronization signal from a base station; receiving a second synchronization signal from the base station; and receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) from the base station, and acquiring downlink time and frequency synchronization with the base station on the basis of the CSI-RS. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352604 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPENSATING TIMING ADVANCE FOR FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATION - Techniques for compensating timing advance for full duplex communications are disclosed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a timing advance value and a compensation factor. The UE may also determine a timing compensation amount indicating an amount of time to adjust an uplink (UL) transmission based on the timing advance value and the compensation factor. The UE may also transmit, to the base station, the UL transmission according to the timing compensation amount. Other features are also described. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352605 | TIME DRIFT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH TIMING GROUP DELAYS - In an aspect, a communications node (e.g., TRP or UE) obtains (e.g., measures) timing group delays associated with different positioning procedures to determine time drift information, and reports the time drift information to an external entity for position estimation. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352606 | METHODS FOR TIMING ADVANCE INDICATION AND TIMING RELATIONSHIPS INDICATION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS - A method of enabling communication between a user equipment (UE) and a non-terrestrial network (NTN), is described. The UE may be able to calculate a timing advance compensation. The timing advance compensation may be a differential or full timing advance compensation. An offset value, K | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352607 | Downlink (DL) Transmission Timing of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Node - A radio access node comprises one or more processors configured to determine a first reference timing of a first communication connection between the radio access node and a second, parent radio access node; determine a second reference timing of a second communication connection between the radio access node and a third, child radio access node; a memory storing the first and second reference timings; the one or more processors further configured to generate a request for the child radio access node to perform a timing advance adjustment based on the stored first and second reference timings, so that an uplink receive signal transmitted by the child radio access node arrives at the same time at the radio access node as a downlink receive signal transmitted by the parent radio access node arrives at the radio access node in case of frequency division multiplexed signals. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352608 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING PUBLIC LAND MOBILE NETWORK (PLMN) IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for selecting a public land mobile network (PLMN) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises: in a manual network selection mode, displaying one or more first PLMN items corresponding to one or more first PLMNs on a display of the UE; when an input for a second PLMN item among the one or more PLMN items is received, controlling a communication module of the UE to attempt to register the UE on a second PLMN corresponding to the second PLMN item; when the registration on the second PLMN fails, providing access to restricted local operator service (RLOS), and displaying, on the display, one or more third PLMN items corresponding to one or more third PLMNs included in an RLOS PLMN list configured in a universal subscriber identity module (USIM) of the UE; and when an input for a fourth PLMN item among the one or more third PLMN items is received, controlling the communication module to initiate registration for access to the RLOS of a fourth PLMN corresponding to the fourth PLMN item, whereby it is possible to use not only excellent but also highly secure RLOS. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352609 | SITE ESTIMATION BASED ON CROWD SOURCED DATA - Crowd sourced data from mobile devices may be used to estimate site locations. In addition, machine learning models may be used to filter out any inaccurate crowd sourced data before using algorithms to estimate the cell site location. An apparatus may include a processor and a memory coupled with the processor that effectuates operations. The operations may include receiving data associated with a location of plurality of devices that have connected with a base station in a geographic area; determining a machine learning model to apply to the received data based on the type of data, wherein the machine learning model is a clustering model; performing the clustering model on the received data; based on the performing the clustering model on the received data, obtaining representative data that excludes outliers in the received data; based on the representative data, determining a location of the base station in the geographic area; and sending a message with the location of the base station. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352610 | EFFICIENT POSITIONING ENHANCEMENT FOR DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING - Techniques are provided for transmitting Positioning Reference Signals (PRSs) in cells supporting two different Radio Access Technologies (RATs), where the two RATs (e.g. 4G LTE and 5G NR) employ dynamic spectrum sharing. To avoid interference between the PRSs and between the two RATs, the PRSs may be time aligned to the same set of PRS positioning occasions, and may be assigned orthogonal characteristics such as different muting patterns, orthogonal code sequences, different frequency shifts or different frequency hopping. UEs supporting both RATs may be enabled to measure PRSs for both RATs. UEs supporting only one RAT (e.g. 4G LTE) may be enabled to measure PRSs for just this RAT. A location server such as an LMF, E-SMLC or SLP may provide assistance data to UEs, and request measurements from UEs, for PRSs in one or both RATs. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352611 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION AND SENSING FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS - A system and method for communicating and sensing for distributed antennas associated with a building. Each of a number of antennas distributed geographically within the building include one or more sensors, each of the one or more sensors being configured to sense an environmental condition associated with the building and generate sensor data. A sensor processor is configured to receive the sensor data and generate a digital map view of a portion of the building based on locations of the plurality of antennas, the map view including a digital representation of the sensor data. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352612 | SENSING AND COMMUNICATING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS DATA WITH DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS - A system for communicating between a building and a first responder is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sensors, each configured to sense an aspect or condition of an environment of the building, and to transmit a sense signal representing the sensed aspect or condition. The system also includes one or more repeaters, configured to receive the sense signals from the sensors and to transmit repeated sense signals representing the sensed aspects or conditions. The system also includes a processor, configured to receive the repeated sense signals and to transmit an output signal based at least in part on one or more of the repeated sense signals, and one or more output devices configured to receive the output signal and to communicate information associated with the sensed aspect or condition based on the output signal. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352613 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR POSITIONING, AND DEVICE THEREFOR - A method by which a terminal transmits, in a wireless communication system, a reference signal for positioning is disclosed. Particularly, the disclosure can comprise: receiving information related to a cell list including at least one cell; receiving one or more downlink signals from the at least one cell; determining the transmission power of the reference signal on the basis of the reception power of a specific downlink signal from among the one or more downlink signals; and transmitting the reference signal on the basis of the transmission power. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TERMINAL AND A SERVER - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for communication by a terminal. The method can include: sending a first message to a server, the first message comprising command information, the command information comprising first state information of the terminal, and the first state information comprising at least one of mobile attribute information, moving state information, mobile state start information, stationary state start information, or moving direction state information, wherein the mobile attribute information is used to indicate that the terminal is a mobile terminal, the moving state information is used to indicate that the terminal is in a mobile state, the mobile state start information is used to indicate a transition of the terminal from a stationary state to a mobile state, the stationary state start information is used to indicate a transition of the terminal from a mobile state to a stationary state, and the moving direction information is used to indicate direction information of movement of the terminal; and receiving a second message sent by the server, wherein the second message is used to confirm the at least one of first state information in the command information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352615 | METHOD PERFORMED BY USER EQUIPMENT, AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment, including: acquiring, from a base station, paging-related parameters, where the paging-related parameters include paging search space configuration parameter-related information; and determining, according to the paging search space configuration parameter-related information, an association mechanism for mapping a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion in a paging search space to a PDCCH monitoring occasion for paging, where when the information indicates that a paging search space configuration parameter has been configured and a search space indicated by the paging search space configuration parameter is not a type0-PDCCH common search space, a non-default association mechanism is used; when the information indicates that the paging search space configuration parameter is not configured, or the paging search space configuration parameter-related information indicates that the paging search space configuration parameter has been configured and the search space indicated by the paging search space configuration parameter is a type0-PDCCH common search space, a default association mechanism is used. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352616 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PAGING MESSAGE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BY USING UNLICENSED BAND, AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present disclosure proposes a method for transmitting and receiving paging message in a wireless communication system by using unlicensed band, and a device therefore. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF RESPONSE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to method and apparatus for controlling a transmission of a response signal in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system, comprises receiving a signal for a paging from a network; and receiving downlink (DL) data related to the paging, wherein a transmission of at least one of a paging response for the paging or acknowledgment (ACK) information for the DL data is determined based on information included in the signal for the paging. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352618 | PAGING TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE - A paging message transmission method includes: receiving indication information from a core network device, the indication information is used to indicate a target transmission manner; and sending a first paging message to UE in the target transmission manner. The target transmission manner includes at least one of: for a second paging message of one SIM card, retransmitting the second paging message at X first transmission locations, transmitting the second paging message in an offset manner based on a predetermined offset and/or in a predetermined offset direction, or transmitting the second paging message at a second transmission location. The second transmission location is different from an original transmission location that is used to transmit the second paging message, M and X are integers greater than 1, N is a positive integer, and N is less than or equal to M. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352619 | Wireless Device Paging by a Wireless Network - A wireless device sends a first request to a mobility management function. The first request includes a paging cause value in a paging message. The paging message is received by the wireless device and comprises the paging cause value. Based on the paging message, a second request for a connection setup is sent. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352620 | PAGING PROCEDURES FOR USER EQUIPMENTS WITH COVERAGE EXTENSION - The present disclosure relates to a method for paging coverage extension UEs in a cell controlled by a radio base station. At least one CE-specific paging possibility is defined for paging CE-UEs. The CE-UEs in the cell regularly monitor the at least one CE-specific paging possibility. When the radio base station determines to page all the user equipments in the cell, it pages the CE user equipments in the cell at the CE-specific paging possibility, using a coverage extension technique. The disclosure also relates to a method for paging a CE-UE, which performs radio measurements by a CE-capable user equipment to determine whether coverage extension is necessary. The radio base station is informed about whether the CE-capable user equipment needs coverage extension and then pages the CE-UEs applying or not applying a CE technique depending on whether coverage extension is necessary. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352621 | DISTRIBUTED UNIT, RADIO TERMINAL, AND METHODS THEREFOR - In response to receiving a signaling message requesting a broadcast of specific system information from a central unit ( | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352622 | NETWORK NODE, USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING BEAMFORMED SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method performed by a network node for broadcasting beamformed signals of a data transmission to a User Equipment (UE). For each specific data transmission from a number of data transmissions the network node allocates a set of Reference Signals, RS, for the data transmission, the number of RSs in the set of RSs being based on a measure of popularity for UEs receiving the specific data transmission. The network node sends an indication of the allocated set of SRs for each specific data transmission. The network node receives from a UE requesting a particular data transmission out of the number of data transmissions an RS from the set of RS allocated for the particular data transmission. The network node broadcasts beamformed signals of the particular data transmission. The signals are beamformed based on estimated composite channels from all UEs that transmit any RS included in the set of RS allocated for the particular data transmission. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352623 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource configuration for sidelink communication, sidelink discovery or any other sidelink operation in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to determine a Bandwidth Part (BWP) assigned for sidelink transmission and reception in a carrier; and a transceiver operative to perform the sidelink transmission and reception on the determined BWP in the carrier, wherein dynamic BWP switching is not supported for the sidelink transmission and reception in the carrier. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352624 | INDICATION OF SINGLE OR MULTI-STAGE SIDELINK CONTROL INFORMATION (SCI) - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a first, transmitting, user equipment (UE) for sidelink communication with a second, receiving, UE. The techniques generally includes determining whether to transmit sidelink control information (SCI) for decoding a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission to a receiving UE in one or multiple stages, transmitting the SCI in accordance with the determination, and transmitting the PSSCH in accordance with the SCI. Release 16 NR sidelink transmissions often include two (or more) stages of SCIs. The present disclosure provides methods and techniques for alternative mechanisms to achieve similar goals as the multiple stages of SCIs when the second (and the subsequent) SCI stage(s) is absent. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352625 | SIDELINK BEAM CONFIGURATION AND INDICATION - Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to configure and indicate one or more beams for sidelink communication with another wireless communication device. The sidelink communication can include first stage sidelink control information (SCI) and second stage SCI that may be communicated on a first beam configured on the wireless communication devices. The sidelink communication can further include sidelink data traffic that may be communication on a second beam. The second beam may be the first beam or a different beam based on at least one of a beam capability of at least the first wireless communication device or a gap between the sidelink data traffic and at least one of the first stage SCI or the second stage SCI. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352626 | MULTIPLEXING INTER USER EQUIPMENT COORDINATION INFORMATION WITH SIDELINK SHARED CHANNEL - Aspects presented herein may enable a transmitting device to encode and transmit coordination information and data in separate transport blocks, such that the transmitting device may update the coordination information without altering the transport block carrying the data. In one aspect, an apparatus encodes coordination information for sidelink resources in a first transport block. The apparatus encodes data in a second transport block. The apparatus transmits a first transmission on a PSSCH, the first transmission including the first transport block comprising coordination information and the second transport block. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352627 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING TRANSMISSION OF UNSENT DATA RETRANSMISSIONS - The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a user equipment (UE) and/or base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may determine a selection procedure for uplink transmissions, the selection procedure including information for uplink data retransmissions. The apparatus may also transmit, to a UE, the selection procedure for uplink transmissions. The apparatus may also monitor for at least one uplink transmission from the UE based on the selection procedure for uplink transmissions. In another aspect, the apparatus may receive, from a base station, a selection procedure for uplink transmissions, the selection procedure including information for uplink data retransmissions. The apparatus may also implement the selection procedure for uplink transmissions. The apparatus may also transmit, to the base station, at least one uplink transmission based on the selection procedure for uplink transmissions. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352628 | OPERATING METHOD OF TERMINAL PERFORMING V2X COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS USING METHOD - In a wireless communication system, a third party different from both terminals or a base station, which are parties to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, may be involved in resource allocation for the V2X communication. For example, a first terminal performing V2X communication with a second terminal receives recommendation information recommending a resource available for the V2X communication from a third terminal and performs the V2X communication with the second terminal by using a recommended resource determined based on the recommendation information or a resource selected by the first terminal based on the recommendation information. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352629 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF MULTI-TRANSMIT/RECEIVE POINT TRANSMISSION - A method of multi-transmit/receive point (multi-TRP) transmission. The method comprises receiving a parameter set and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission from each of multiple TRPs; decoding each received PDCCH transmission to obtain a K | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352630 | BASE STATION, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a base station communicably connected to a wireless terminal is provided. The base station includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to acquire communication condition information indicating conditions of wireless communication with the wireless terminal. The transmitter is configured to transmit the communication condition information to a system managing a first network slice and a second network slice which can be used by the base station. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352631 | DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION PIGGYBACK IN PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL, DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION ENCODING - A base station transmits a first downlink control information (DCI) portion in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the first DCI portion indicates a second DCI portion. The base station jointly encodes multiple component DCIs, each of the component DCIs providing a resource allocation in combination with the first DCI portion. The apparatus transmits the second DCI portion comprising the jointly encoded multiple component DCIs in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352632 | Signaling for SRS and PUSCH Transmission in a Last Symbol - A wireless device receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) request field and an ending symbol field for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The SRS request field indicates an SRS is not transmitted in a last symbol of a subframe of an unlicensed cell. The ending symbol field indicates the PUSCH is not transmitted in the last symbol for a first listen before talk procedure to be performed during the last symbol. A packet is transmitted in the subframe via the PUSCH based on the ending symbol field. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352633 | DOWNLINK CONTROL OF UNLICENSED SUB-BANDS - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for downlink control of unlicensed sub-bands. The method comprises determining a search space configuration associated with control resources on a plurality of sub-bands which are unlicensed, the search space configuration indicating candidates for detection of downlink control information for the plurality of sub-bands; determining, from the search space configuration, positions of the candidates on the control resources within each of the plurality of sub-bands; mapping an available number of candidates to the determined positions based on a transmission bandwidth assumed by a terminal device; and transmitting downlink control information to the terminal device on the mapped candidates. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352634 | METHOD AND SERVER CONFIGURED FOR ALLOCATING DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION RESOURCES AND FOR TRANSMITTING OBSTACLE DETECTION ENHANCEMENT DATA, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Obstacle detection enhancement data are transmitted from a server to at least one moving conveyance embedding an obstacle detection system and an on-board wireless radio unit communicating with the server via wireless link. To do so, downlink transmission resources are allocated to each on-board wireless radio unit in a transmission cycle C | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352635 | FREQUENCY RESOURCE ALLOCATION OF A BANDWIDTH PART FOR MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION TYPES - In some aspects, a method of wireless communication includes receiving control information by a UE from a base station. The control information indicates one or more first frequency resources of a BWP that are associated with a first communication type and further indicates one or more second frequency resources of the BWP that are associated with a second communication type. The method further includes, based on a first data type of first data corresponding to the first communication type and further based on a second data type of second data corresponding to the second communication type, performing a wireless communication with the base station using the one or more first frequency resources to communicate the first data and using the one or more second frequency resources to communicate the second data. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352636 | DOWNLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - This application provides a downlink channel transmission method and apparatus, so that reliability of downlink channel transmission can be improved. The method includes: A terminal device receives at least two physical downlink control channels PDCCHs on at least two control information resources, where the at least two PDCCHs carry same downlink control information DCI, and the DCI is used to indicate a time-frequency resource corresponding to a first downlink channel. The terminal device obtains at least two transmission configuration indicators TCIs corresponding to the at least two control information resources. The terminal device determines a target TCI in the at least two TCIs, where the target TCI is a TCI corresponding to the first downlink channel. The terminal device receives the first downlink channel based on the DCI and the target TCI. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352637 | SEARCH SPACE FOR EPDCCH CONTROL INFORMATION IN AN OFDM-BASED MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for receiving control information within a subframe of a multi-carrier communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising the following steps performed at a receiving node: performing a blind detection for the control information within a search space by means of a first search pattern, wherein the first search pattern is one of a plurality of search patterns, each of the plurality of search patterns comprising a plurality of candidates distributed on any of a plurality of aggregation levels, and wherein the plurality of search patterns further comprises a second search pattern whose candidates are non-overlapping the candidates of the first search pattern on the same aggregation levels. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352638 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for monitoring downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system, especially in a new radio access technology (NR) is provided. A user equipment (UE) monitors first DCI having a first size in a UE specific search space (USS). The the first size is determined based on an active bandwidth part (BWP). The UE further monitors second DCI having a second size in a common search space (CSS). The second size is determined based on a default BWP. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352639 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK NODE, RADIO TERMINAL, AND METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA THEREFOR - A second RAN node ( | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352640 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURED RESOURCE, AND APPARATUS - This application provides a method for determining a configured resource, and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, configuration information of a configured resource from a network device, where the configured resource is a periodic resource, and the configuration information includes a periodicity parameter of the periodic resource; maintaining, by the terminal device, a sequence number for the configured resource, where the sequence number is updated when a system frame number SFN wraps around; and determining, by the terminal device, the configured resource based on the sequence number and the periodicity parameter. Based on this solution, the terminal device can determine the configured resource based on the periodicity parameter of the periodic resource, to reduce a possibility of a deviation between a configured resource position obtained through calculation and that of a resource actually required by the terminal device, thereby implementing effective configuration of the configured resource. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352641 | Multiplexing Of Short Physical Downlink Control Channel And Data In Mobile Communications - Various solutions for multiplexing of short physical downlink control channel and data with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a reuse indication from a control channel. The apparatus may determine whether a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs) are reused for a data channel according to the reuse indication. The apparatus may further receive the data channel in the CCEs in an event that the reuse indication indicates that the CCEs are reused. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352642 | REFERENCE SIGNALS AND COMMON SEARCH SPACE FOR ENHANCED CONTROL CHANNELS - Methods and apparatuses for a User Equipment (UE) to receive signaling of UE-common Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a set of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) over a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) are provided. The method includes receiving, from a transmission point, a broadcast signal; determining a first set of PRBs for a first PDCCH based on the broadcast signal; determining a second set of PRBs for a second PDCCH based on a higher layer signaling; receiving, from the transmission point, first DCI on a first PDCCH in the first set of PRBs; and receiving, from the transmission point, second DCI on a second PDCCH in the second set of PRBs. A CRC of the first DCI is associated with an SI-RNTI, a CRC of the second DCI is associated with a C-RNTI, an RS is determined based on an identity of the transmission point, in a case that the RS is received in the first set of PRBs, and the RS is determined based on the higher layer signaling, in a case that the RS is received in the second set of PRBs. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352643 | METHOD FOR RELAY TERMINAL TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SAME - A method for a relay terminal to transmit and receive signals in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a step for transmitting, in a first time region, a UL signal to an upper node through a backhaul link and a DL signal to at least one lower node through an access link; and a step for receiving, in a second time region, a DL signal from the upper node through the backhaul link and a UL signal from the at least one lower node through the access link, wherein different frequency resources are allocated to the UL signal and the DL signal in the same carrier in each of the first time domain and the second time domain. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352644 | INFORMATION RETRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, BASE STATION, AND TERMINAL - Information retransmission methods and apparatus, base stations, and terminals are provided. The method includes: determining a retransmission alternative resource for a shared user equipment (UE) according to preset grant-free uplink (GUL) transmission configuration information, where the GUL transmission configuration information comprises at least a time-frequency range associated with a GUL transmission period and a time-frequency location of a periodic uplink transmission resource, and the shared UE and other UE share the same periodic uplink transmission resource in an unlicensed spectrum to implement automatic uplink transmission; generating alternative resource configuration information according to a time-frequency range of the retransmission alternative resource; and sending the alternative resource configuration information to the shared UE, such that the shared UE performs automatic retransmission on the retransmission alternative resource according to the alternative resource configuration information after the shared UE fails listen before talk (LBT) detection. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352645 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, BEAM DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUSES THEREFOR - Disclosed are a signal transmission method, a beam determination method and apparatuses therefor. In the method, a base station instructs a terminal to send a first uplink signal, and sends uplink beam indication information to the terminal, wherein the uplink beam indication information is used for indicating a first signal for determining a transmission beam of the first uplink signal, and the first signal comprises a PRACH. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352646 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus, a terminal, a base station, and a storage medium, belonging to the technical field of communications. The method includes: receiving beam indication signaling sent by a base station, wherein the beam indication signaling is used for indicating a plurality of target beams or a target group of beams; determining, according to the beam indication signaling, the plurality of target beams or the target group of beams; and performing multi-beam based data transmission with the base station based on the plurality of target beams. Since a terminal determines a plurality of target beams based on the beam indication signaling, multi-beam based data transmission is performed between the terminal and the base station, thereby improving communication robustness. | 2021-11-11 |
| 20210352647 | MULTIPLE SIDELINK CONTROL TRANSMISSIONS DURING A SIDELINK CONTROL PERIOD - The invention relates to the allocation of radio resources by a transmitting user equipment to perform a plurality of direct SL transmissions to one or more receiving user equipments. The allocation of radio resources within a SC period is restricted, for the SC period, by a maximum number of SL processes with which a transmitting user equipment is configured. A plurality of SL grants is acquired. Among the acquired SL grants a number of those SL grants is selected that have most recently been acquired before the start of the subsequent SC period. A plurality of SL processes is associated such that each of the plurality of SL process is associated with a different one of the selected number of SL grants. For each of the plurality of the SL processes, the radio resources are allocated. Each of the plurality of SL transmissions comprises at least one SCI transmission and at least one data transmission over the SL interface. | 2021-11-11 |
