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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi

Md Saifur Rahman

Anand Ganesh Dabak

Runhua Chen

Aris Papasakellariou

Young-Han Nam

Emad N Farag

Timothy M Schmidl

Hongbo Si

Badri N Varadarajan

Ralf Matthias Bendlin

Tarik Muharemovic

Anthony Edet Ekpenyong

Zukang Shen

Dalin Zhu

Li Guo

Boon Loong Ng

Yang Li

Le Liu

Vikram Chandrasekhar

Hoondong Noh

Jianzhong Zhang

Youngwoo Kwak

Thomas David Novlan

Gilwon Lee

Taeyoung Kim

Yuguang Gao

Pierre Bertrand

Yan Hui

Gibong Jeong

Younsun Kim

Srinath Hosur

Tarkesh Pande

Alan Gatherer

Jeongho Jeon

Il Han Kim

Aristides Papasakellariou

Youngbum Kim

Hyoungju Ji

Jaiganesh Balakrishnan

Gang Xu

Gert-Jan Van Lieshout

Robert W Monroe

Jin Yuan

Sandeep Bhadra

Xiaomeng Shi

Ioannis Tzanidis

Antonio F Mondragon-Torres

Steven P Pekarich

Saifur Rahman

Taehyoung Kim

Anuj Batra

Manish Goel

Sridhar Rajagopal

Michael Oliver Polley

Jeehwan Noh

Charles Kasimer Sestok, Iv

Yan Xin

Muhammad Zubair Ikram

Donald Phillip Shaver

Keonkook Lee

Akbar Muhammad Sayeed

Barry Van Veen

David James Love

Yuyang Wang

Hee Don Gha

Timothy M Schmidt

Nasir Ahmed

Vasanthan Raghavan

Jianzhing Zhang

Badri Varadaharajan

Anand G Debak

Che Lin

Badrl Varadarajan

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a synchronization unit configured to provide a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal having first and second segments. The transmitter also includes a secondary scrambling unit configured to provide a scrambled secondary synchronization signal, wherein scrambling agents for the first and second segments are derived from a primary synchronization sequence of the primary synchronization signal. The secondary scrambling unit is further configured to provide an additional scrambling of one of the first and second segments, wherein a second scrambling agent is derived from the remaining segment of a secondary synchronization sequence of the secondary synchronization signal. The transmitter further includes a transmit unit configured to transmit the primary synchronization signal and the scrambled secondary synchronization signal.

Mapping schemes for secondary synchronization signal scrambling

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 compression-based channel state information (CSI) reporting are provided. A method includes receiving a configuration about a CSI report, the configuration including information about N>1 groups of CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) ports and a codebook. The codebook includes a first component that includes P≥2 sets of basis vectors including a first set for spatial domain (SD) and a second set for frequency domain (FD) and a second component that includes coefficients associated with each basis vector combination (v, v, . . . , v), where vbelongs to a k-th set of basis vectors. The method further includes, based on the configuration, measuring the Ngroups of CSI-RS ports and determining the first component and the second component and transmitting the CSI report including one or multiple basis vector indicators indicating all or a portion of the first component and one or multiple coefficient indicators indicating all or a portion of the second component.

Method and apparatus for compression-based CSI reporting

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a configuration about a channel state information (CSI) report, the configuration including information about a time interval W for the CSI report, the time interval W comprising multiple time slots; and a number (Y) of channel quality indicator (CQI) values associated with the time interval W; deriving, based on the configuration, the Y CQI values, each of the Y CQI values at a corresponding time slot in the time interval W, wherein the Y CQI values satisfy a block error (BLER) probability requirement; and transmitting the CSI report including the Y CQI values, wherein Y≥1.

Method and apparatus for CSI reporting

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information for a maximum permissible emission (MPE) report; determining the MPE report including Q pairs of (resource indicator, MPE metric), where Q∈{1, . . . , P}; including the MPE report in a power headroom (PHR) report; and transmitting, via medium access control-control element (MAC CE), the PHR report including the MPE report.

Method and apparatus for beam measurement and reporting

For multiplexing channel state information (CSI), a user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver configured to receive configuration information for CSI reporting and a processor configured to decode the configuration information and calculate a CSI according to the configuration information. The transceiver is configured to transmit the calculated CSI on an uplink (UL) channel, where the CSI includes N segments and is transmitted in one slot, where N>1. A first of the N segments includes a rank indicator (RI) and at least one other CSI parameter. A base station (BS) includes a processor configured to generate configuration information for CSI reporting and a transceiver configured to transmit, to a UE, the configuration information via a downlink (DL) channel; and receive, from the UE, a CSI report calculated in accordance with the configuration information on an uplink UL channel.

Method and apparatus for multiplexing channel state information

A wireless transmission system included at least one user equipment and a base station. The base station is operable to form a downlink control information block, modulate the downlink control information, precode the modulated downlink control information, and transmit the precoded, modulated downlink control information on at least one demodulation reference signal antenna port to the at least one user equipment. The precoded, modulated downlink control information is mapped to a set of N1 physical resource block pairs in a subframe from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T1 to and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol T2.

Physical downlink control channel and physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel enhancements

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a configuration via a radio resource control (RRC) message, the configuration including information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) burst comprising B>1 time instances of CSI-RS transmission; measuring the CSI-RS burst; determining, based on the measurement, time-domain (TD) or Doppler domain (DD) components of a downlink (DL) channel; and transmitting a CSI report including an indication about the TD or DD components of the DL channel.

Method and apparatus for configuring a reference signal burst

Methods and apparatuses for interference management in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information about I. I is interference information for interfering Nremote radio heads (RRHs), where N≤N−1. The configuration information indicates a number of RRHs, N>1. The method further includes determining, based on the interference information I, a downlink (DL) spatial filter using P antenna ports, where P>1, and receiving DL data using the determined DL spatial filter.

Method and apparatus for interference management

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a cellular communication network that can determine whether communications between one base station-UE pair may interfere with another UE that is in the same cell or a different cell. The network identifies interference parameters associated with interference signals that may be received by a UE. The interference signals may be generated by the base station itself, such as communications with other UEs, or by a neighboring base station. The base station transmits the interference parameters to the UE. The UE receives the one or more parameters comprising information about signals expected to cause intra-cell or inter-cell interference. The UE then processes received signals using the one or more parameters to suppress the intra-cell or inter-cell interference.

Network signaling for network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression

Apparatuses and method for channel state information (CSI) reporting. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration about a channel state information (CSI) report. The configuration indicates (i) a value of N, (ii) a value of paramCombination indicating values of three parameters, and (iii) a codebookType. The method further includes determining the CSI report based on the configuration and transmitting the CSI report. Here, Nis a number of time-domain (TD) slot intervals.

Channel state information reporting

Apparatuses and methods for receiving physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or monitoring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate in an inter-cell system. A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving an indicator for inter-cell operation; receiving first information of one or more first synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) associated with a serving cell physical cell identity (PCI); and receiving second information of one or more second SSBs associated with a PCI different from the serving cell PCI. The method further includes determining, based on the first information, one or more first resources for receiving the one or more first SSBs and determining, based on the second information, one or more second resources for receiving the one or more second SSBs. The first or second resources correspond to at least one of: (1) resource elements (REs), (2) physical resource blocks (PRBs) and (3) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.

Method and apparatus for receiving downlink channels in an inter-cell system

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receiving a TCI state indication associated with downlink (DL) transmissions in a plurality of downlink (DL) time slots, decoding the TCI state indication, and applying the TCI state indication to a reception of the DL transmissions in the plurality of DL time slots.

Method and apparatus for beam management for mobility

Methods and apparatuses for configuration of unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for a list of TCI states for downlink (DL) or joint TCI states, receiving configuration information for a control resource set (CORESET), receiving configuration information for a search space set associated with the CORESET, and receiving an indication of a TCI state for the list of TCI states. The method further includes identifying a type of the search space set and an index of the CORESET, applying the indicated TCI state to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the CORESET based on (i) the identified type of the search space set and the identified index of the CORESET or (ii) additional configuration information, and receiving the PDCCH based on quasi-co-location properties corresponding to the indicated TCI state.

Method and apparatus for configuring a unified TCI state

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information about a measurement region that is associated with P ports, where P≥10 and based on the information, identifying the measurement region, measuring the P ports associated with the measurement region, and determining a channel state information (CSI) report based on the measurement, and transmitting the CSI report. The information about the measurement region includes at least two of (i) a set of physical resource blocks (PRBs), (ii) a set of time slots, and (iii) a set of CSI-reference signal (RS) resources. P×O=Q, where Q is a number of precoding dimensions, O=a number of precoding dimensions per port associated with the CSI report, and Ois fixed, configured, or reported by the UE via UE capability reporting.

Method and apparatus for reciprocity based CSI-RS transmission and reception

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