Apple Inc.

Intel Corporation

Intel IP Corporation

Honglei Miao

Hong He

Gang Xiong

Michael Faerber

Seunghee Han

Debdeep Chatterjee

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov

Markus Dominik Mueck

Jeongho Jeon

Dae Won Lee

Yushu Zhang

Yongjun Kwak

Ingolf Karls

Joonyoung Cho

Bharat Shrestha

Toufiqul Islam

Hyejung Jung

Yujian Zhang

Huaning Niu

Bernhard Raaf

Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov

Qiaoyang Ye

Wook Bong Lee

Biljana Badic

Avik Sengupta

Dario Sabella

Leonardo Gomes Baltar

Kilian Roth

Tian Yan Pu

Youn Hyoung Heo

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Ralf Matthias Bendlin

Sergey Panteleev

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Jing Zhu

Puneet K Jain

Guotong Wang

Seau Sian Lim

Anthony Lee

Jaemin Han

Rajarajan Balraj

Daewon Lee

Miltiadis Filippou

Grigory Ermolaev

Maria Fresia

Yang Tang

Jie Cui

Jong-Kae Fwu

Yuan Zhu

Yang Yang

Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev

Joey Chou

Hyung-Nam Choi

Xu Zhang

Rui Huang

Candy Yiu

Richard Charles Burbidge

Yi Guo

Satish Chandra Jha

Geng Wu

Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan

Qian Li

Mikhail S Shilov

Marta Martinez Tarradell

Andrey Chervyakov

Yizhi Yao

Hua Li

Robert Zaus

Tianyan Pu

Farid Adrangi

Jerome Parron

Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde

Dawei Ying

Jinyu Zhang

Chun-Hsuan Kuo

Yuhan Zhou

Feng Yang

Lu Lu

Chang Hong Shan

Hassan Ghozlan

Cecilia Carbonelli

Yaser M Fouad

Joonbeom Kim

May Wu

Naveen Palle

Mustafa Emara

Matthias Weiss

Seung Hee Han

Alexey Vladimirovich Davydov

Ellen Liao

Song Noh

Youngjun Kwak

Technology for a base station operable to encode a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field length for transmission to a user equipment (UE) for enhanced Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) (eURLLC) is disclosed. The gNB can determine the PUCCH resource indicator field length that indicates a length of a PUCCH resource indicator field, wherein the PUCCH resource indicator field length is related to transmission of a number of PUCCH symbols for eURLLC. The gNB can encode the PUCCH resource indicator field length for transmission in downlink control information (DCI) to the UE.

Enhanced physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) power control

The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and devices that can provide fast secondary cell (SCell) activation in a wireless communication network. In various embodiments, the methods and devices, including access nodes and mobile radio communication terminals, may use medium access control (MAC) control elements (CEs) commands that facilitate fast SCell activation.

Systems, methods, and devices for secondary cell activation

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate power ramping of PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel), for example, in connection with change of best gNB (next generation Node B) Tx (Transmit) beam and/or dynamic beam switching for control and/or data channels. Power ramping techniques discussed herein can comprise techniques for determining at least one of a power ramping counter or power offset for PRACH in connection with a change in best DL (Downlink) Tx (Transmit) beam. Dynamic beam switching techniques discussed herein can comprise employing DCI comprising at least one beam indication field indicating a beam index of a new beam of a BPL (Beam Pair Link) for at least one of a data channel or a control SS (Search Space).

PRACH (physical random access channel) ramping and dynamic beam switching of control and data transmissions

Systems, Methods, Devices, and Apparatuses for power saving are provided. In at least one embodiment, a device may be configured for discontinuous reception (DRX) mode and further receive signaling indicating whether or not to wake and/or may receiving signaling indicating whether or not to go-to-sleep. The signaling may be implemented as group-specific signaling.

Systems, methods, and devices for signaling for power saving

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmit diversity for power saving signals (e.g., WUS (Wake Up Signal) or GTS (Go To Sleep signal)). One example embodiment comprises an apparatus configured to be employed in a UE (User Equipment), comprising: a memory interface; and processing circuitry configured to: process a power saving signal associated with a drx-on Duration (Discontinuous Reception On Duration) occasion, wherein the power saving signal is received via a set of RBs (Resource Blocks) comprising a first plurality of RBs associated with a first precoder and a different second set of RBs associated with a different second precoder, wherein the set of RBs are within a configured set of time and frequency resources of the drx-onDuration occasion; and determine, based on the set of RBs, whether the power saving signal is a WUS or a GTS.

Transmit diversity mechanism for power saving signal

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.

Downlink (DL) transmission timing of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node

Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for measuring and/or reporting UE-to-UE crosslink interference (CLI). Techniques of realizing efficient L3 CLI RSSI and SRS-RSRP reporting and triggering mechanisms are disclosed. The disclosed apparatuses and methods can configure a measurement object to include a cross-link sounding reference signal (SRS) resource or a cross-link received signal strength indicator (RSSI) resource. A level of cross-link interference (CLI) between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE based is determined, at least in part, on the configured measurement object. Then, in response to occurrence of a predetermined event, a report is generated that includes the level of CLI. The measurement object is configured to include a resource configuration parameters for a cross-link interference received signal strength indicator (CLI-RSSI) measurement and sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configurations for a cross-link SRS reference signal received power (SRS-RSRP) measurement. One of the first or second UEs can transmit the report.

Cross-link interference (CLI) measurement reporting

A process for performing a sidelink (SL) communication includes determining a configuration, for a communication zone of a set of communication zones, the configuration being indicative of at least one a resource configuration or at least one signaling configuration for a communication of data. The process includes generating SL control information (SCI) that indicates a transmitter (TX) location based on the configuration of the communication zone of the set of communication zones. The process includes communicating the SCI indicating the TX location.

Location based sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback transmission

Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for configuring and implementing secondary cell beam failure recovery procedures. For example, some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE) that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to detect that a first beam associated with a secondary cell (SCell) is misaligned. The first beam is associated with a first reference signal (RS). The processor circuitry can further be configured to configure a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure for the SCell and perform the BFR procedure to replace the first beam with a second beam, wherein the second beam is associated with the SCell.

Methods and systems for secondary cell beam recovery

Techniques are provided for implementing backhaul communications for an integrated access and backhaul node (IAB) operating in a wireless network. For example, an IAB node determines a first random access channel (RACH) configuration for a child node in the wireless network that is served by the IAB node. The IAB transmits a RACH configuration request message including the first RACH configuration to a parent IAB node, and receives, from the parent IAB node, a second RACH configuration complete message that includes a second RACH configuration that is based on the first RACH configuration for the child node. The IAB then performs backhaul communication with the parent IAB node using the second RACH configuration.

Methods for random access channel (RACH) configuration for relay node

Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement enhanced sounding reference signaling for uplink (UL) beam tracking in communication systems are described. In one example, an apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuit to broadcast system information about one or more sets of uplink transmit time intervals and bandwidths available for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission from a first user equipment (UE), configure one or more UE-specific SRS processes for the first UE for uplink beam tracking, and configure one or more millimeter wave access points (mmW APs) to transmit a mmW signal to the first UE and receive a mmW signal from the first UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.

Enhanced sounding reference signaling for beam management

Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for adaptation layer enhancements in new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks. In one aspect, a method includes performing, by an adaptation layer of an IAB node of the IAB network, header compression on one or more headers of a packet for transmission in the IAB network; and transmitting the packet with the one or more compressed headers to a destination IAB node of the IAB network.

Adaptation layer enhancement in relay networks

The disclosure describes configuration schemes for secondary cell (SCell), bandwidth part (BWP) and physical resource block (PRB) indexing. An apparatus of user equipment (UE) for BWP activation and deactivation operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to receive radio resource control (RRC) data via the RF interface, configure a timer for a BWP according to the RRC data, and trigger the timer for the BWP in response to detection of an event associated with an access node after the BWP has been activated.

Configuration schemes for secondary cell, bandwidth part and physical resource block indexing

Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for determining in a new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system available soft resources for an IAB node. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a mobile termination (MT) of the IAB node, a time-domain soft resource configuration for a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node. The method further includes transmitting the time-domain soft resource configuration to the DU.

Dynamic soft resource signaling in relay networks

A network element for configuring a Remote Interference Monitoring Reference Signal (RIM-RS) is disclosed. The network element transmits RIM-RS resource configuration and Information of Things (IoT) measurement and reporting configuration information to a base station. The base station conducts the IoT measurement and ducting phenomenon detection according to the received configuration, and transmits the results to the network element. The base station determines the number of repetition and/or near-far indication based on the received information and transmits the number of repetition and near-far indication to the base station. The base station then transmits the RIM-RS according to the received repetition and near-far indication.

Repetition configuration for remote interference management-reference signal (RIM-RS) transmissions

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