Fujitsu Corporation

Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Motorola Mobility LLC

Lenovo Innovations Limited (hong Kong)

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ca, Inc.

Baidu Online Network Technology (beijing) Co., Ltd.

Lenovo Limited

Chenxi Zhu

Wei-Peng Chen

Haipeng Lei

Zhi Yan

Bingchao Liu

Jonathan Russell Agre

Dorin Gheorghe Viorel

Zhennian Sun

Xiaodong Yu

Akira Ito

Hongmei Liu

Lianhai Wu

Wei Ling

Haiming Wang

Hongchao Li

Yi Zhang

Zhuoyun Zhang

Tyler A Brown

Takao Naito

Masato Okuda

Lingling Xiao

Huy Dung Han

Hui Zeng

Yuji Kojima

Michiharu Nakamura

Yingying Li

Jagan N Seshadri

Timothy J Moulsley

Xinghua Song

Paul Bucknell

Hongyang Chen

Huy-Dung Han

Joachim Loehr

Vijay Nangia

Prateek Basu Mallick

Jian Zhang

Genadi Velev

Ming Liu

Hua Zhou

Hiroyuki Seki

Makoto Yoshida

Masahiro Watanabe

Lei Song

Hiroshi Fujita

Michael John Beems Hart

Yuefeng Zhou

Zhaojun Li

Zongliang Huo

Shibing Long

Ching-Fong Su

Hiroyuki Kiyanagi

Feng Yan

Qin Hua Wang

Takeo Hamada

Changqin Huo

Tamer M Nadeem

Nien-Tai Kai Mao

Yuechao Guo

Tolga Girici

Methods and apparatuses for triggering an aperiodic SRS are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a RRC signaling configuring N triggering offsets for each of P aperiodic SRS resource sets, where N is 1 or more, P is 1 or more; receiving a MAC CE to activate one or more triggering offset(s) among all configured triggering offsets for each of M out of the P aperiodic SRS resource sets, where M is 1 to P; receiving a DCI containing a non-zero SRS request field triggering at least one aperiodic SRS resource set, wherein at least one triggering offset of each triggered aperiodic SRS resource set is activated by the MAC CE; and transmitting SRS resources contained in each triggered aperiodic SRS resource set in the first available slot among all candidate slots indicated by the activated triggering offsets for each triggered aperiodic SRS resource set.

Flexible triggering of aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS)

Methods and apparatus of enhanced counting schemes for candidates of enhanced PDCCH are disclosed. The method includes: counting, by a processor, candidates of PDCCH that are to be transmitted with a plurality of transmissions, based on a candidate counting scheme, wherein the candidates are linked with one another for transmissions of the PDCCH; generating, by the processor, configuration signaling of one or more search space sets for monitoring transmissions of the PDCCH; and transmitting, by a transmitter, the configuration signaling and the candidates of the PDCCH.

Methods and apparatus of enhanced counting schemes for candidates of enhanced PDCCH transmission

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data transmissions using multiple transmission reception points. One method () includes transmitting () a downlink control information format in a downlink control channel to a user equipment, wherein: the downlink control information format comprises a transmission configuration indication field; the transmission configuration indication field indicates two transmission configuration indication states; and each transmission configuration indication state of the two transmission configuration indication states contains parameters for configuring a quasi-colocation relationship associating at least one downlink reference signal resource with a demodulation reference signal of a downlink data channel. The method () includes transmitting () the downlink data channel from two transmission reception points, wherein each transmission reception point of the two transmission reception points transmits each data layer of one or more data layers and a demodulation reference signal associated with each data layer.

Data transmissions using multiple transmission reception points

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for channel state information reference signal resource pairs. One method () includes transmitting () information indicating: at least one pair of channel state information reference signal resources; wherein the information comprises one or more identifiers, and each identifier of the one or more identifiers corresponding to the at least one pair of channel state information reference signal resources.

Channel state information reference signal resource pairs

Apparatus and methods of enhanced CSI-RS resource configuration and transmission for simultaneous UE Rx beam refinement are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configuration comprising one or more CSI-RS resource sets for Receive (Rx) beam refinement, the CSI-RS resource sets comprising a plurality of CSI-RS resources for transmission of a plurality of CSI-RSs that are Frequency-Division Multiplexed (FDMed), wherein the receiver further receives, simultaneously, the CSI-RSs based on one or more Quasi Co-Location (QCL) assumptions; a processor that performs a simultaneous Rx beam refinement corresponding to the CSI-RSs that are FDMed; and a transmitter that transmits a reporting according to a Channel State Information (CSI) reporting configuration.

Apparatus and methods of simultaneous user equipment (UE) receive (RX) beam refinement

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink control information indication. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a second control information message from a remote unit over sidelink communication. Here, the second control information is in response to the remote unit receiving one or more data processes scheduled by a first control information message from a relay unit. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines a transmission-reception pattern for the sidelink communication and generates an indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern. The apparatus further includes a transmitter that transmits the indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern to the remote unit in a third control information message.

Sidelink control information indication

Method and apparatus for reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL are disclosed. One method of a UE for the reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL includes performing precoding on UL transmission with a precoding matrix corresponding to a CRI, in the case of a frequency of UL and DL being in a same band and Tx/Rx beam correspondence, wherein, the CRI corresponding to the precoding matrix is determined according to a measurement on DL channel quality; and transmitting a report of the measurement on DL channel quality to a base station.

Method and apparatus for non-codebook based UL transmission

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink transmissions. One apparatus includes a processor that generates a preamble sequence for an uplink transmission. The preamble sequence of the apparatus includes indication information. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the preamble sequence. The transmitter transmits uplink information based on the indication information.

Preamble based access for an uplink transmission

Methods and apparatuses for transmitting a control message are disclosed. A method comprising: transmitting a control message including an indicator for indicating at least one of termination of a control channel monitoring, termination of a data transmission and a feedback corresponding to the data transmission, wherein the indicator is determined based on at least one of a system bandwidth, a maximum bandwidth of the data transmission and a bit length of the indicator.

Control message transmission

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for communication configuration selection. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives configuration information for multiple communication configurations. The configuration information corresponds to services having different performance requirements, and the performance requirements include latency, reliability, peak data rate, efficiency overhead, control overhead, system capacity, or some combination thereof. The apparatus also includes a processor that selects a communication configuration of the multiple communication configurations. The apparatus communicates using the selected communication configuration.

Communication configuration selection

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method comprises: receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a request to determine a spatial information for configuring a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, and transmitting the SRS resource according to the spatial information determined by the UE.

Method and apparatus for beam management

The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for transmission resource selection. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes: selecting a transmission resource for a sidelink transmission; generating an indication signaling for indicating the sidelink transmission on the selected transmission resource; and transmitting the indication signaling on a detection resource, which is a time-frequency resource prior to the selected transmission resource. Embodiments of the present disclosure solve the technical problem concerning the transmission resource selection in a V2X system.

Method and apparatus for transmission resource selection

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for synchronization signal block reception and synchronization signal block transmission. One apparatus for synchronization signal block reception includes a receiver that receives multiple synchronization signal blocks. The multiple synchronization signal blocks have different power levels corresponding to at least two synchronization signal blocks of the multiple synchronization signal blocks.

Configuring synchronization signal blocks having different power levels

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a resource field that carries feedback information. One apparatus () includes a transmitter () that transmits () data. The apparatus () includes a processor () that determines (), based on transmission of the data, a resource field that carries feedback information corresponding to the data. The resource field is contained in control signaling. The apparatus () includes a receiver () that receives () the control signaling.

Determining a resource field that carries feedback information

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for beam switching. One apparatus includes a transmitter transmits information indicating a beam switch request, measurement results, or some combination thereof, wherein the information indicates a list of beams, and the information is based on a trigger event, the measurement results, or some combination thereof.

Indicating a beam switch request

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