Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Interdigital Technology Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Sharp Corporation

Interdigital Communication Corporation

John Michael Kowalski

Zhanping Yin

Shohei Yamada

Tatsushi Aiba

Gary R Lomp

Kai Ying

Fatih M Ozluturk

Donald L Schilling

Toshizo Nogami

Kazunari Yokomakura

Ahmad Khoshnevis

Sayantan Choudhury

Alexander M Jacques

Kimihiko Imamura

Srinivas Kandala

Jia Sheng

Kenneth James Park

Lizhong Zheng

Michael J Luddy

Robert T Regis

Avi Silverberg

Alexander Marra

Atsushi Ishii

Huaming Wu

V Srinivasa Somayazulu

Faith M Ozluturk

Shimon Moshavi

Shugong Xu

Yoshihiro Ohtani

Fatih Ozukturk

Kamel M Shaheen

Prem Lal Sood

William Michael Rudnick

KyungHo Kim

Richard Thomas Bennett

Hirohiko Yamamoto

Chan K Park

Zhangping Yin

A repeater node of a telecommunications network wirelessly communicates with a parent node and another node. The repeater node comprises receiver circuitry, processor circuitry, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a frame of information from the parent node. The processor circuitry is configured to include a customized control signal in the frame of information received from the parent node. The customized control signal is customized for the repeater node. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit the frame of information which includes the customized control signal to the other node which may be a wireless terminal.

Network-controlled repeater devices, methods, and networks including same

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE receives an RRC message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of multiple reduced UE processing capabilities. The UE receives an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission. The UE receives an RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE receives an RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE transmits, to the base station apparatus, a transport block if the first uplink symbol in the PUSCH allocation for a transport block including a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) is no earlier than at symbol X.

User equipments, base stations and signaling for relaxed uplink processing time

An Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node comprises a set of plural communication circuitries. Each communication circuitry of the set is configured to perform wireless communications with at one or plural other IAB nodes. The IAB node comprises processor circuitry and transmitter circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to obtain, from a configuration command, an indication whether to generate a power report pertaining to all communication circuitries of the set or a subset of the plural communication circuitries, and to generate the power report in accordance with the indication. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit the power report to the parent IAB node.

Power reporting for integrated access and backhaul networks

In one of the example aspects, the technology disclosed herein concerns an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node that communicates over a radio interface. The IAB node includes mobile-termination circuitry, distributed unit circuitry, and processor circuitry. The mobile-termination circuitry is configured to transmit over the radio interface with a parent node. The distributed unit circuitry is configured to transmit over the radio interface with a child node. The processor circuitry is configured to manage the transmission power utilized by the IAB node by taking into consideration both transmission by the mobile-termination circuitry and transmission by the distributed unit circuitry. Other example aspects of the technology disclosed herein concern the transmission power reporting by such IAB node, transmission power prioritization by such IAB node, transmission power governance for the distributed unit circuitry for such IAB node, and a method of operating such IAB node(s).

Power management for integrated access and backhaul networks

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first downlink control information (DCI) used for indicating a deactivation of a configured grant corresponding to a configured grant configuration with a first index. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit, based on a reception of the first DCI, a configured grant confirmation medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). The configured grant confirmation MAC CE includes a value indicating a deactivation status of the configured grant configuration with the first index.

Methods for multiple active semi-persistent scheduling configurations

The IAB node comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive information on a resource allocation of OFDM symbols within one or more slots. The processor circuitry is configured to determine from the information both a slot format indicator and a time resource indication. The slot format indicator is configured to indicate, for each OFDM symbol of the slot, whether the symbol is an uplink symbol, a downlink symbol, or a flexible symbol. The time resource indicator, TRI, is configured to indicate, for each OFDM symbol of the slot, whether the symbol may be allocated by a parent node or by the IAB node. The processor circuitry is further configured to control utilization of one or more symbols of the slot at least in part in accordance with a respective symbol allocation from the time resource indication and the slot format indicator.

Resource management for wireless backhaul networks

User equipments, base stations and methods for multiple active configured grants

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number (HPN). The HPN indicates one or more configured grant (CG) configurations that are activated and/or released/deactivated. The UE also includes processing circuitry configured to activate and/or release/deactivate one or more CG configurations based on the HPN.

User equipments, base stations and methods for activation and release of multiple configured grants

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) conveying a pre-emption indication that indicates pre-emption of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling that comprises a configuration for a configured grant and a configuration for grant-based PUSCH. The UE also includes a higher layer processor configured to determine whether to follow the configuration for the configured grant or the configuration for grant-based PUSCH for a scheduled retransmission of a TB previously transmitted on a PUSCH with a configured grant. The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit or skip the PUSCH transmission based on the pre-emption indication.

User equipment and base stations that achieve uplink multiplexing

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a common configuration comprising parameters shared by multiple configured grants. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on the parameters shared by the multiple configured grants of the common configuration, transmissions on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

User equipment, base stations and signaling for multiple active configured grants

A user equipment (UE) that performs sidelink (SL) communications is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to: receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for configuring an SL bandwidth part (SL BWP). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a second RRC message comprising second information used for configuring one or more resource pools for SL transmission within the SL BWP. The receiving circuitry is further configured to receive a third RRC message comprising third information used for configuring a sidelink channel state information-reference signal (SCSI-RS). The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform SL channel state information (CSI) reporting based on the third information. The third information is associated with at least one of the SL BWP and one resource pool of the one or more resource pools for the SL transmission.

User equipments, base stations and methods for sidelink channel state information (SL CSI) reporting

An IAB node comprises processor circuitry and interface circuitry. The processor circuitry is to generate a synchronization signal (SS)/primary broadcast channel (PBCH) Block Measurement time Configuration (SMTC) and to use an STC muting indication to moot STC(s) in the SMTC which is/are not to be transmitted. The SMTC comprises plural synchronization signal (SS)/primary broadcast channel (PBCH) Block Transmission Configurations (STCs), each STC comprising plural synchronization signal (SS)/primary broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks (SS/PBCHs). The interface circuitry is configured to transmit the SMTC as muted in accordance with the STC muting indication.

Muting of signaling for integrated access and backhaul networks

User equipments (UEs) and communication methods for sidelink (SL) communication are described. The UE comprises receiving circuitry, determining circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The receiving circuitry is configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for configuring one or more resource pools for SL transmission(s) within one or more SL bandwidth parts (SL BWPs). The determining circuitry is configured to select a SL resource for transmission of a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) and a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH. The transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit first-stage SL control information (SCI) over the PSCCH and to transmit the PSSCH associated with the PSCCH, wherein second-stage SCI is carried on the PSSCH, and the first-stage SCI provides scheduling information of the PSSCH, and indicates a format of the second-stage SCI.

User equipments and communication methods for sidelink communication

A user equipment (UE) that communicates via mini-slot-based repetitions includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information for configuring a first number of repetitions for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, second information for configuring a second number of repetitions for PUSCH transmissions, and third information for indicating a repetition type from a set of repetition types comprising a first repetition type and a second repetition type, the first repetition type indicating only one repetition to be transmitted within a slot, the second repetition type indicating repetitions to be transmitted within the slot. The UE includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on the third information, the first number of repetitions or the second number of repetitions, wherein the transmitting circuitry performs the second number of repetitions in a case that the third information indicates the second repetition type.

User equipment and base stations that achieve mini-slot-based repetitions

A node of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network comprises processor circuitry and interface circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to make a determination concerning crosslink interference (CLI) between (a) a beam transmitted from a parent node to the IAB node and (b) a beam transmitted from the IBA node to a child node of the IAB node; and in accordance with the determination, and to generate a command configured to modify a property of the beam transmitted from the parent node to the IAB node. The interface circuitry is configured to transmit the command to a beam controller of the parent node.

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