Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.

Pantech Co., Ltd.

Pantech Corporation

Sk Telecom Company, Ltd.

Innosky

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Apple Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Other

IP Cube Partners Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Goldpeak Innovations Inc

Geninus Inc.

Solid, Inc.

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation

Dong Hyun Park

Sung Jun Yoon

Ki Bum Kwon

Hyo Sun Yang

Yong Suk Kim

Chang Hyun Lim

Sung Jun Lee

Sungjun Yoon

Kibum Kwon

Jinho Kim

Yeong Gyu Lee

Jae Hyoung Gil

Suk Kee Hong

Seung Ho Shin

Sang Hyun Yi

Yong Beom Cho

Woong Yang Park

Ga Hyun Kim

Hyeong Been Park

Hyeyeun Lim

Sol Yi Kim

Jong Suk Chung

Jun Gi Jeong

Provided may be a method of supporting, by a user equipment (UE), sidelink communication in a wireless communication system. The method. of supporting, by the UE, sidelink communication in the wireless communication system may include receiving a coordination request from a transmitting UE (Tx UE); generating a coordination message based on the coordination request; and transmitting the generating coordination message to the Tx UE. Here, the coordination request may include 1-bit information and the coordination request may be received based on at least one of a physical resource set of Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH), a Sidelink Control Information (SCI) format, Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC) scrambling, and a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) sequence, and the Tx UE may perform resource reselection based on the coordination message.

Method and device for selecting resource in wireless communication system

Provided is a method of transmitting a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a special subframe by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving an Uplink (UL) grant from a base station, the UL grant being included in a downlink time period of Time Division Duplex (TDD) cell, wherein the TDD cell having TDD UL/DL configuration 1, 2 or 6; determining a resource in an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a special subframe of the TDD cell to transmit a PUSCH associated with the received UL grant, wherein the special subframe, having subframe number 1 or 6, consists of a Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), and the UpPTS; transmitting, from the UE, the PUSCH mapped to the resource in the UpPTS; and receiving a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) responsive to the PUSCH.

Method and apparatus for HARQ operation-supporting uplink data transmission in a special subframe in a wireless communication system

A method includes configuring serving cells for UE, the serving cells including at least six serving cells configurable for the UE; receiving PUCCH format configuration information for transmitting uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells, the PUCCH format configuration information including configuration information of PUCCH format 4; determining a total number of HARQ-ACK bits, SR bits, and periodic CSI bits to be transmitted in a subframe, selecting, at least based on the determined total number, a PUCCH format to transmit at least one of HARQ-ACK, SR, and periodic CSI, the selected PUCCH format being one of PUCCH formats including the PUCCH format 4 and PUCCH format 3; and transmitting the uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells in the subframe using the selected PUCCH format, the uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells including the at least one of HARQ-ACK, SR, and periodic CSI.

Apparatus and method for transmitting uplink control information through a physical uplink control channel

Sidelink downlink control information may include a first indicator field that indicates a sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing. A bitwidth of the first indicator field may be based on at least one of one or more parameters from the base station. The first wireless user device may transmit, based on the SL DCI and to a second wireless user device, a first sidelink signal. The first wireless user device may receive, during a first time interval and from the second wireless user device, first sidelink HARQ feedback information responsive to the first sidelink signal. The first wireless user device may determine, based on the sidelink HARQ feedback timing and based on the first time interval, a second time interval. The first wireless user device may transmit, during the second time interval and to the base station, the first sidelink HARQ feedback information.

Method and apparatus for determining HARQ timing in wireless communications

An apparatus and method for processing positioning reference signal are disclosed. A method may include receiving, by a narrow-band (NB) user equipment (UE), positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration information, determining, by the NB UE, narrowband PRS (NB PRS) configuration information for the NB UE, the NB PRS configuration information comprising information of an NB PRS reference cell that generates an NB PRS for the NB UE, determining, by the NB UE, PRS configuration information for a UE, the UE being assigned to use a frequency band unavailable for the NB UE, and the PRS configuration information comprising information of a PRS reference cell that generates a PRS for the UE, generating, based on the NB PRS configuration information and the PRS configuration information, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement, and transmitting, by the NB UE, the RSTD measurement.

Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving positioning reference signal

An apparatus and method of processing a positioning reference signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes determining a narrow-band (NB) positioning reference signal (PRS) bitmap indicating a pattern selecting NB PRS subframes, wherein each NB PRS subframe comprises an NB PRS for positioning an NB user equipment (UE), transmitting, to the NB UE, NB PRS configuration information for the NB UE, the NB PRS configuration information comprising the NB PRS bitmap, determining, by a reference cell and based on the NB PRS bitmap, NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, mapping, by the reference cell, a first NB PRS in the NB PRS subframes of the reference cell, and receiving, from the NB UE and in response to the first NB PRS, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement.

Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving positioning reference signal in wireless communication system

Sidelink downlink control information (SL DCI) associated with transmission of one or more sidelink signals may be communicated. A wireless user device may transmit, based on the SL DCI and to one or more second wireless user devices, the one or more sidelink signals via a first quantity of sidelink channel resources. The wireless user device may receive first sidelink HARQ feedback information responsive to the one or more sidelink signals. The wireless user device may determine, based on a sidelink HARQ feedback timing, a time interval to transmit the first sidelink HARQ feedback information. The wireless user device may determine, based on the first quantity, a sidelink HARQ codebook. The wireless user device may transmit, during the time interval, based on the sidelink HARQ codebook, and to the base station, an uplink signal indicating the first sidelink HARQ feedback information.

Method and apparatus for using HARQ in wireless communications

A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) and through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, information of a resource pool for a D2D communication, wherein the information of the resource pool comprises information of a discovery subframe in which a D2D discovery signal is to be communicated, determining that in the discovery subframe, the D2D discovery signal is prioritized over a communication with an evolved NodeB (eNB) unless the communication with the eNB is associated with a random access (RA) procedure, transmitting a RA preamble through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), determining whether the discovery subframe corresponds to a RA subframe in which a RA response for the UE is to be monitored, and in response to determining that the discovery subframe corresponds to the RA subframe, monitoring, by the UE, the RA response during the discovery subframe.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for wireless communications are provided. A method may comprise receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, one or more messages comprising downlink control information (DCI) associated with a DCI format; determining that a first field of the DC corresponds to a predefined value, determining that, based on the first field corresponding to the predefined value, the DCI is for a random access procedure associated with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order; determining, based on the determining that the DCI is for a random access procedure associated with a PDCCH order and based on a plurality of fields of the DCI, a random access channel (RACH) occasion; and transmitting, based on the RACH occasion, a random access preamble.

Method and apparatus for performing random access

Disclosed is a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal for an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) in a CA (Carrier Aggregation) system, the method including obtaining at least one transmission resource among first and second transmission resources; configuring a first table showing a relationship in which a combination of at least one of the first and second transmission resources and modulation symbols is mapped to an ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting modulation symbols corresponding to a transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table by using transmission resource corresponding to the transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table.

Method of transmitting and receiving ACK/NACK signal and apparatus thereof

Provided is a method and apparatus for receiving a reference signal. A wireless user device may determine, based on a synchronization signal (SS) block index and based on an index associated with a time interval, an initialization value associated with a reference signal for a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The wireless user device may receive, based on the initialization value and based on a frequency domain shift value, the reference signal via at least one resource element (RE). The reference signal may be mapped, based on the frequency domain shift value, to the at least one RE. The wireless user device may receive the PBCH.

Method and apparatus for communicating reference signal for broadcast channel

A method and apparatus for performing a sidelink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation are provided. The method may include establishing a communication session through an upper layer signaling; receiving configuration information for a HARQ operation through the upper layer; receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network; transmitting sidelink data through a sidelink channel based on the received DCI; and receiving a response to the sidelink data.

Method and apparatus for performing HARQ operation

Provided is a method and apparatus for performing a random access procedure. A wireless device may transmit a random access preamble and may monitor for a random access response. The wireless device may determine to transmit a second random access preamble or to transmit uplink data responsive to the random access response. A time for preparing the second random access preamble may be determined based on a subcarrier spacing associated with the random access preamble or a subcarrier spacing associated a downlink channel associated with the random access response. A time for preparing the uplink data may be determined based on a subcarrier spacing associated with the uplink data or a subcarrier spacing associated a downlink channel associated with the random access response.

Apparatus and method for performing random access in wireless communication system

Hybrid Automatic Retransmit ReQuest-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) index mapping and uplink resource allocation is performed and controlled for channel selection transmission. A method for transmitting HARQ-ACK information to an eNode-B (eNB) by a User Equipment (UE) includes identifying KPCell as a number of downlink subframe(s) of a PCell associated with an uplink subframe and identifying KSCell as a number of downlink subframe(s) of an SCell associated with the uplink subframe; generating Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) response information for a cell having a smaller number of downlink subframes between the PCell and the SCell; generating HARQ-ACK information including the generated DTX response information and response information on data received by the UE from the eNB; and transmitting the generated HARQ-ACK information to the eNB through the uplink subframe.

Methods for transmitting and receiving hybrid automatic retransmit request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) index mapping and uplink resource allocation for channel selection transmission in inter-band time division duplex mode, user equipment to transmit HARQ-ACK, and eNode-B to receive HARQ-ACK

A method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs) are provided. The method of a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method includes: receiving, at a transmission (Tx) UE, resource assignment information transmitted from an evolved NodeB (eNB), the resource assignment information being associated with a D2D discovery signal to be transmitted in a discovery period; determining, at the Tx UE, that a D2D discovery signal associated with a first discovery type and a D2D discovery signal associated with a second discovery type are to be transmitted in a first subframe included in the discovery period; and in the first subframe, transmitting the D2D discovery signal associated with the second discovery type and dropping the D2D discovery signal associated with the first discovery type.

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