Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Aristides Papasakellariou

Carmela Cozzo

Emad N Farag

Ebrahim MolavianJazi

Marian Rudolf

Ebrahim Molavianjazi

Jeongho Jeon

Qiongjie Lin

Joonyoung Cho

Hongbo Si

Kyeongin Jeong

Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi

Md Saifur Rahman

Nishithkumar D Tripathi

Dalin Zhu

Apparatuses and methods for transmission power in full-duplex systems. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) for receiving a downlink (DL) channel or signal includes receiving first information for a first set of parameters for a first DL channel or signal associated with a first subset of slots from a set of slots on a cell and second information for a second set of parameters for a second DL channel or signal associated with a second subset of slots from the set of slots on the cell. The method further includes determining, based on a slot for a reception being from the second subset of slots, to use the second set of parameters for the reception and receiving, based on a power adjustment value in the second set of parameters, the second DL channel or signal in the slot.

Transmission and reception power in full-duplex systems

Methods and apparatuses for monitoring an indication of an operation state on a cell in a wireless communication system. A method for a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information related to a list of parameters in one or more domains; receiving second information for a search space set for reception of physical downlink control channel (PDCCHs); and receiving a PDCCH from the PDCCHs. The list includes a number of sets of parameters corresponding to a first number of cells. The PDCCH provides a downlink control information (DCI) format that indicates a number of indexes. An index from the number of indexes is associated with a second number of cells from the first number of cells. The method further includes determining parameters on a cell from the second number of cells based on the index and receiving a channel or signal on the cell based on the parameters.

Method and apparatus for monitoring operation state indication

Apparatuses and methods for assistance information from repeaters. A method for a network-controlled repeater (NCR) includes receiving, by an NCR mobile termination (NCR-MT) entity first information for reception parameters of a set of uplink (UL) signals or channels and second information for reporting a metric corresponding to the set of UL signals or channels and receiving, on an access link of an NCR forwarding (NCR-Fwd) entity, based on the first information, an UL signal or channel from the set of UL signals or channels. The method further includes determining, by the NCR-MT entity a measurement for the UL signal or channel and a value for the metric based on the measurement and transmitting, by the NCR-MT entity, a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) that provides the value.

Assistance information from repeater

Methods and apparatuses for random access (RA) in full-duplex (FD) wireless communication systems. A method for transmitting a random access channel (RACH) associated with a RA procedure includes receiving first information for first parameters of a first RACH configuration associated with a first subset of slots from a set of slots on a cell, second information for second parameters of a second RACH configuration associated with a second subset of slots from the set of slots on the cell, and third information for a condition. The method further includes determining whether the condition is valid for transmission in a slot from the second subset of slots and transmitting a RACH in the slot based on: the first RACH configuration when the condition is valid, and the second RACH configuration when the condition is not valid.

Conditional random access channel transmission in full-duplex systems

Apparatuses and methods for uplink transmission in full-duplex systems. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information for a first set of parameters of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) associated with a first subset of slots from a set of slots on a cell and second information for a second set of parameters of the PUCCH associated with a second subset of slots from the set of slots on the cell. The method further includes determining, based on whether a slot is from the first subset of slots or the second subset of slots, a set of PUCCH parameters from the first and second sets of parameters and transmitting, based on the set of PUCCH parameters, the PUCCH in the slot on the cell. Slots from the first subset of slots do not include time-domain resources indicated for simultaneous transmissions and receptions on the cell. Slots from the second subset of slots include time-domain resources indicated for simultaneous transmission and reception on the cell.

Uplink transmission in full-duplex systems

Methods and apparatuses for transmission of uplink channels. A method for a user equipment includes receiving: first information indicating a configuration for reception of first signals or channels, second information indicating counting to determine a number of repetitions, and third information indicating a first number of repetitions for a transmission of a second channel. The method further includes determining: an availability of a slot for transmission of a repetition of the second channel based on the first information, a value of a counter of repetitions based on the second information, and an indication for transmission of the repetition of the second channel in the slot based on: the availability, the value of the counter, and the first number of repetitions. The method further includes transmitting the repetition of the second channel in the slot based on the indication.

Method and apparatus for transmission of uplink channels

Methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring for multi-cell scheduling. A method for a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information indicating a set of cells that includes more than one cell, second information indicating a first search space set that is associated with a DCI format for scheduling on multiple cells, and third information indicating an indicator value corresponding to the set of cells. The method further includes determining an association between the first search space set and the set of cells, and, based on the first search space set and the indicator value, control channel elements (CCEs) for receptions of PDCCH candidates; and receiving the PDCCH candidates over the CCEs.

PDCCH monitoring for multi-cell scheduling

Methods and apparatuses for early indication for initial access in full-duplex systems. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a system information block (SIB1) including configuration information, identifying, based on the configuration information, a random access channel (RACH) configuration, and identifying, based on the configuration information, an early access indication associated with a full-duplex operation. The method further includes determining to use a first random access transmission configuration if a condition for the early access indication associated with the full-duplex operation is met or a second random access transmission configuration if the condition is not met and transmitting a random access message using the determined first or second random access transmission configuration.

Early indication for initial access in full-duplex systems

Apparatuses and methods for beam management for repeaters. A method for a network-controlled repeater (NCR) includes receiving, by an NCR mobile termination (NCR-MT) entity, first information for a list of spatial domain filters for an access link of an NCR forwarding (NCR-Fwd) entity, second information for a set of spatial relations corresponding to reference signals (RS) for transmission or reception on a control link (C-link) of the NCR-MT entity, and third information indicating an uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) direction for each time domain resource. The method further includes determining an UL time domain resource, a first spatial domain filter, and a second spatial domain filter based on the second information. The method further includes receiving, by the NCR-Fwd entity, a radio frequency (RF) signal on the access link using the first spatial domain filter and transmitting the RF signal on a backhaul link using the second spatial domain filter.

Beam management for repeaters

Methods and apparatuses for operating in different bandwidth parts (BWPs). A method includes receiving a first synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block in a first BWP; determining, based on information provided by the first SS/PBCH block, a first control resource set (CORESET) in the first BWP; and receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the first CORESET. The PDCCH provides a first downlink control information (DCI) format that schedules a reception of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) providing a system information block (SIB1). The method further includes receiving the first PDSCH, determining a second BWP based on information provided by the SIB1, and receiving a second SS/PBCH block in the second BWP. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first SS/PBCH block. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first CORESET.

Methods and apparatus for UE power savings in initial downlink bandwidth part dedicated to redcap devices

Methods and apparatuses for duplex operation in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, for a cell, first information indicating first slots with uplink (UL), downlink (DL), or flexible (F) symbols associated with a first bandwidth (BW) and second information indicating second slots with UL, DL, or F symbols associated with a second BW. The second slots are a subset of the first slots. The method further includes determining a first direction for a first set of symbols of the first slots based on the first information and a second direction for a second set of symbols of the second slots based on the first information and the second information. The method further includes transmitting or receiving over the first set of symbols and over the second set of symbols.

Apparatuses and methods for duplex operation

Apparatuses and methods for DCI fields for multi-cell scheduling. A method includes receiving first information for a set of cells and identifying first time-domain resource allocation (TDRA) tables having a one-to-one mapping with cells in the set of cells. The method further includes receiving second information for a second TDRA table for reception of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) on cells in the set of cells and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that provides a downlink control information (DCI) format that includes a TDRA field that indicates a first row of the second TDRA table. The method further includes determining first time resources for the receptions of the first PDSCHs on the first cells based on first entries, respectively, of the first row of the second TDRA table and receiving the first PDSCHs on the first cells in the first time resources, respectively.

DCI fields for multi-cell scheduling

A method for acknowledgement information enhancement includes receiving first information for first cells; second information for second cells; first and second DCI formats; and N PDSCHs on N cells, from the second cells, which are scheduled by a DCI format from the second DCI formats. The method further includes determining first HARQ-ACK information bits associated with the first DCI formats and second HARQ-ACK information bits associated with the second DCI formats. The second HARQ-ACK information bits include, for the DCI format, M=ΣMHARQ-ACK information bits corresponding to receptions of the N PDSCHs on N cells, in ascending order of cell indexes for the N cells and (M−M) HARQ-ACK information bits with NACK values that are appended to the M HARQ-ACK information bits. The method further transmitting a channel that includes a HARQ-ACK codebook generated by appending the second HARQ-ACK information bits to the first HARQ-ACK information bits.

Acknowledgement information reporting for multi-cell scheduling

Methods and apparatuses for beam management after channel setup. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving at least one of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) or channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), measuring the at least one of the SSB or the CSI-RS, and determining downlink (DL) quasi-co-location (QCL) properties for DL communication based on the at least one of the SSB or the CSI-RS. The method further includes determining an uplink (UL) spatial domain filter for UL communication, receiving DL channels using the determined DL QCL properties until only one of only one joint TCI state or only one DL TCI state is configured, activated, or indicated to the UE, and transmitting UL channels using the determined UL spatial domain filter until only one of only one joint TCI state or only one UL TCI state is configured, activated, or indicated to the UE.

Method and apparatus for beam management after channel setup

Apparatuses and methods for transmission of uplink channels with repetitions in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving first information that includes a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) field associated with transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The MCS field includes a number of bits, a first value of a first number of bits, from the number of bits, indicates a first number of repetitions for the transmission of the PUSCH, and a second value of a third number of bits, from the number of bits excluding the first number of bits, indicates an MCS index for the transmission of the PUSCH. The method further includes determining the first number of repetitions based on the first value; determining an MCS for the transmission of the PUSCH based on the second value; and transmitting the PUSCH with the first number of repetitions and the MCS.

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