Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Convida Wireless, LLC

Ipla Holdings Inc.

Other

Iot Holdings, Inc.

Convidia Wireless, LLC

Joseph M Murray

Pascal M Adjakple

Guodong Zhang

Lakshmi R Iyer

Qing Li

Allan Yingming Tsai

Yifan Li

Mohamed Awadin

Jean-Louis Gauvreau

Wei Yu Chen

Rocco Di Girolamo

Tianyi Xu

Qian Zhang

Martino M Freda

Stephen E Terry

Zhuo Chen

Alpaslan Demir

Athmane X Touag

Angelo A Cuffaro

Behrouz Aghili

Diana Pani

Christopher R Cave

Rocco DiGirolamo

Wei Chen

Mihaela C Beluri

Ana Lucia A Pinheiro

Zinan Lin

Michael F Starsinic

Amith Vikram Chincholi

Mahmoud Watfa

Debashish Purkayastha

Scott Laughlin

Chunxuan Ye

Hongkun Li

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Patrick Svedman

Yuying Dai

Ahmed ElSamadouny

Salman Khan

Alexander Reznik

Catalina Mihaela Mladin

Saad Ahmad

Quang Ly

Robert A DiFazio

Scott C Hergenhan

Kenneth F Lynch

Kyle Pan

Rui Yang

Liangping Ma

Erdem Bala

Lujing Cai

Douglas R Castor

Jiwan L Ninglekhu

Sylvie Gomes

Joseph Gredone

Parul Mudgal

Qian (Emily) Zhang

Dale N Seed

Philip J Pietraski

Ana Lucia Pinheiro

Muhammad U Fazili

Patrick Cabrol

David S Bass

Sudhir B Pattar

Paul Russell

Kamraan Nasim Syed

Joe Huang

Jerome Vogedes

Tariq Elkourdi

James M Miller

Ravikumar V Pragada

Juan Carlos Zuniga

John L Tomici

Joseph A Kwak

Brian Gregory Kiernan

Ayaskant Rath

Catalilna Mladin

Jan R Johansson

Zaid Al-khatib

Zaid Al-Khatib

Ahmad Saad

Ahmed Elsamadouny

Aghill Behrouz

Cai Lujing

Behrouz Aghill

SL DRX mechanism is used for power savings, to address a number of sidelink non-vehicular sidelink use cases. Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, as described herein may use 1) A sidelink state model to describe the UE behavior for sidelink DRX operation. The DRX operation tailored to each of the sidelink states; 2) Power savings opportunities during SL operation, in addition to stopping PSCCH monitoring; 3) Various DRX models applicable to the sidelink; 4) SL_DRX operation for the SL UnLinked state; or 5) SL DRX operation for the SL_Linked state.

NR sidelink discontinuous reception

Methods, systems, and devices may address issues for sending a paging message to a remote UE that is more than one hop from a base station.

Paging remote UE using a relay

A method performed by a base station may comprise: receiving RADAR information; sending scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information includes a set of time and frequency resources associated with a physical downlink transmission that avoid RADAR interference, and wherein the set of time and frequency resources is determined based on the RADAR information; and sending the physical downlink transmission using resources based on the set of time and frequency resources.

System and method for implementing PDSCH enhancements for radar coexistence

An apparatus including a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for monitoring synchronous signals and physical broadcast channels (SSBs) from a network node. The apparatus also includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, configured to execute a set of instructions. The instructions include configuring the apparatus for a STTC (SSB Transmission Timing Configuration). The STTC is a time interval with plural locations accommodating transmission of the SSBs. The instructions also include monitoring the STTC for the SSBs. The instructions further include determining a first one of the SSBs in a first slot of a subframe in a scheduled SSB transmission in the STTC has been transmitted at a first scheduled location, where the transmission of the first one of the SSBs is based upon confirmation of a successful Listen Before Talk (LBT) available channel prior to the scheduled SSB transmission in the STTC.

Mechanism for SSB transmission in NR-U

Methods and systems are disclosed for resource management on Sidelink for vehicle to everything (V2X) scenarios. Example methods and systems for a Resource Structure on Sidelink are disclosed. Control and data channels may be Frequency Division Multiplexed (FDMed) or Time Division Multiplexed (TDMed) with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) waveform. Example methods and systems for a Resource Configuration on Sidelink are disclosed. The resource configuration may be statically configured or may be locally configured. Example methods and systems for Assisted Resource Allocation are disclosed. Assisted Sensing may be performed by a group lead or RSU and local scheduling may be performed by a group lead or RSU.

Resource management for 5G eV2X

Methods, systems, and deices may assist in reducing the possibility that a reduced capability NR device misses a paging message due to the termination of PTW. Methods, systems, and devices may enable a UE to dynamically turn on and off eDRX mode of operation or change eDRX configuration based on its traffic profiles.

eDRX enhancement for reduced capability device

UEs' mobility may have a significant impact on sidelink communications and Uu mobility procedures of UEs participating in SL communication or SL Group Communication. Methods devised to optimize handover procedures, cell reselection procedures, and transition to RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE for UEs with ongoing SL communications. Methods are disclosed herein for PLMN selection for UEs requiring sidelink communication or with active sidelink communication, as well as, methods to provide priority-based resource allocation while using exceptional transmit resource pools. Also, provided are SL group management procedures to deal with impacts of UE mobility.

NR V2X mobility

Blind coverage for wireless devices is enhanced varying one or more transmission characteristics of a repeated transmission sent or received by apparatuses, where the repeated transmission includes, for example a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) and/or a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) transmissions. Varied characteristics may include a start time for each repetition, a duration for each repetition, a start frequency for each repetition, a bandwidth of each repetition, a number of repetitions for each subframe, and/or a number of repetitions for each slot. Repetitions may be within a Bandwidth Part (BWP) or span multiple BWPs. Repetitions may vary from one to another in start time, start frequency, duration, bandwidth, and slot and subframe patterns. Higher level signalling, such as Radio Resource Control (RRC) signalling may be used to control the inclusion or omission of a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) in repeated transmissions.

Coverage enhancement for reduced capability new radio devices

Network Slice Selection Assistance information (NSSA1) may be signaled between User Equipment (UE) and a network. NSSA1 sent from the network to the UE may include, for example. Operating Frequency Band (OFB) for each Single NSSAI(S-NSSA1) in the NSSAI, as well as a Radio Access Technology (RAT) Frequency Selection Priority (RFSP) index, which the network configures as a part of UE access and mobility; subscription, during a UE registration procedure. RAT restrictions may be enhanced to indicate to the UE that certain slices are not accessible via certain RATs. A UE may be provided by the network with an alternative NSSAI and corresponding OFBs for each S-NSSAI thereby indicating to the UE that these S-NSSAI would have been allowed had they been requested. A UE may be able to choose an alternative Allowed NSSAI and send a registration update request to the network.

Frequency range driven network slicing

Switching between Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) modes of a user equipment (UE) can be determined and indicated by a gNB to a UE at an RRC connected state using one or more of the following schemes: at an RRC (Radio Resource Control) layer with an RRC configuration message, at a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer with MAC CE (MAC control element) signaling, at a PHY (Physical) layer with DCI (Downlink Control Information) signaling, jointly with RRC configuration and DCI signaling, and/or jointly with RRC configuration and MAC CE signaling. The OMA or NOMA mode that the UE operates after the transition may be requested by the UE, indicated by the gNB, and/or may be based on one or more rules for OMA-NOMA switching.

Configuration and signaling for UL NOMA operations

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) transmissions are described herein in which sequence collision is mitigated or eliminated by exploiting the randomness nature of user specific reference bits and data bits. Further, methods, systems, and devices that use NOMA for small data transmissions are disclosed.

Small data transmission with non-orthogonal multiple access

Sub-band (SB) indications and listen-before-talk (LBT) outcomes may be used to adjust communications between devices such as wireless terminals and base stations. For example, a wireless terminal may receive SB indications including SB configurations and/or LBT outcomes of a base station, and other information such as a remapped CORESET. Similarly, a terminal may determine that a physical resource block (PRB) is invalid based at least in part on whether the PRB overlaps with a guard band. The terminal may be arranged to adjust its searches and transmissions based on received SB indications, and to provide the base station with LBT outcomes of the terminal.

Sub-band operations in unlicensed spectrums of new radio

A user equipment (UE) determines sidelink resources for use in vehicle wireless communications. Initial beam establishment uses a Sidelink Synchronization Signal (SLSS), a Sidelink Channel State Information Reference Signal (SL-CSI-RS), or a Sidelink Demodulation Reference Signal (SL-DMRS). Beam refinement may then be conducted either by UEs in communication with each other, or by just one of the UEs. A base station such as a gNB may assign resources for a dedicated sidelink carrier or a shared licensed sidelink carrier, e.g., dynamically, as pre-configured by RRC, or based on activation and deactivation. In such cases, initial beam establishment and refinement may include gNB controlled beam forming at a connectionless stage, gNB controlled beam forming at connection stage with scheduling DCI transmitted to Tx UE only, or gNB controlled beam forming at connection stage with scheduling DCI transmitted to both Tx UE and Rx UE.

Beam management for new radio vehicle communications

Access category management objects may be configured for use in support of access category configurations of a user equipment (UE). Various methods for a UE configuration with access categories are disclosed. Signaling methods by a radio access network of access barring parameters such as a signaling method for a partial list of access barring parameters with explicit signaling of access category indexes and a signaling method for a full list of access barring parameters where access categories are signaled using a bitmap are disclosed. Access control parameters and an access control architecture in terms of access control function distribution within the UE protocol sublayers, solutions that address the impact of access control in a connected mode on a buffer status report, logical channel prioritization and flow control between the UE AS and UE NAS, and details regarding access barring checks are also disclosed.

Access control in 5G NR

A first apparatus in a wireless communication system, the first apparatus including circuitry configured to trigger a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure; select a two-step RACH procedure from among a plurality of RACH procedures as a RACH type to be performed; select a MsgA transmission resource; transmit a MsgA; and monitor for a network response from a second apparatus.

Apparatus, system and method for performing two-step RACH

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