Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jung Hyun Bae

Hamid Saber

Jungwon Lee

Liang Hu

Hsien-Ping Lin

Mohammed Karmoose

Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad

Ahmed Attia Abotabl

Dongwoon Bai

Yuan-Sheng Cheng

Inyup Kang

Jungmin Park

Homayoon Hatami

Kee-Bong Song

Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

Sili Lu

Hoda Shahmohammadian

Hyukjoon Kwon

Yuhan Zhou

Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori

Aris Papasakellariou

Philippe J Sartori

Yingqun Yu

Federico Penna

Binnan Zhuang

Yaser Mohamed Fouad

Sungsoo Kim

Hongbing Cheng

Yoo Jin Choi

Qi Zhan

Jinhong Wu

Tiangao Gou

Jooyeol Yang

Jang Wook Moon

Daeson Kim

Mohamad Monzer Mansour

Nadim Ghaddar

Yuansheng Cheng

Mohammad Vahid Jamali

Mirette Sadek

Hikmet Yildiz

Disclosed is a method of transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) by a user equipment (UE) using carrier aggregation, including transmitting, over a first component carrier (CC), a first transmission using a first power and a second transmission using a third power; and transmitting, over a second CC and simultaneously with the first transmission and the second transmission over the first CC, a first transmission using a second power and a second transmission using a fourth power, wherein a sum transmission power across the first and second CCs is maintained during an entire DMRS bundling duration.

Demodulation reference signal bundling in carrier aggregation

A method of semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) release, comprising: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), one or more occasions of SPS physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) over multiple slots for a transport block (TB) according to an SPS configuration; receiving, by the UE, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a downlink control information (DCI) format such that an end of a last symbol of the PDCCH is received before or at a same time as an end of a last symbol of a first occasion of a received SPS PDSCH; and releasing, by the UE, the SPS configuration in response to receiving the PDCCH.

Methods, systems, and devices for SPS PDSCH release

A User Equipment is disclosed that determines a default Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state in a wireless communication network in a High-Speed Train environment. The UE determines that wireless communication is being carried out in Frequency Range 2 and receives one or more Core Resource Sets (CORESETs) carrying a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) with a Downlink Control Information (DCI); that a time offset between reception by the UE of the DCI and a corresponding Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) is less than a predetermined time threshold; that the PDSCH is configured with a Single Frequency Network (SFN) scheme; that an option to enable two default TCI states for the UE is not configured; whether the PDCCH is configured with an SFN scheme; and based on a result of determining whether the PDCCH is configured with an SFN scheme, a default TCI state is determined for PDSCH reception.

Enhancements to support HST-SFN deployment scenario

An system and a method are disclosed for sequence-based physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs). A method includes a UE determining an uplink control information (UCI) payload to be transmitted, determining, based on the UCI payload to be transmitted, a grouping of resource sets and sequences, each sequence corresponding to a resource set, selecting one or more resource sets and one or more sequences from among the determined grouping of resource sets and sequences, according to a mapping operation, for transmitting the UCI payload, and transmitting the selected one or more sequences as part of a UCI payload transmission.

Apparatus and method for utilizing sequence-based PUCCH

A system and method for managing a Discovery Burst Transmission Window in a wireless communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), a first Signal Synchronization Block (SSB); decoding a first Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) from the first SSB; determining, from a Master Information Block (MIB) of the first PBCH, a first beam value; determining, from the first PBCH, a first candidate Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block index; and calculating a first SS/PBCH block index as A mod Q, wherein A is the first candidate SS/PBCH block index and Q is the first beam value.

Discovery burst transmission window design

Methods are disclosed for enhanced Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission for 3Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) new radio (NR) technologies.

ACK-NACK PUCCH dropping schemes for TDD cell

A system and method for accommodating reduced capability user equipment in a mobile network. The method may include monitoring, by a bandwidth-limited User Equipment (UE), a subset of a core resource set (CORESET), the use of a special synchronization signal for bandwidth-limited UEs, or the use of bandwidth part (BWP) switching.

Cell search procedure and initial BWP configuration for reduced capability UE device

A method of enabling communication between a user equipment (UE) and a non-terrestrial network (NTN), is described. The UE may be able to calculate a timing advance compensation. The timing advance compensation may be a differential or full timing advance compensation. An offset value, K, may be indicated to the UE. The Kvalue may be used for timing relationships.

Methods for timing advance indication and timing relationships indication for non-terrestrial networks

A method and user equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes transmitting, from a first UE, an assistance request to at least one neighboring UE, receiving, by the first UE and from the at least one neighboring UE, assistance information including an indication of at least one resource for transmission, and transmitting, from the first UE, over the indicated at least one resource.

User equipment assistance for resource selection in new radio vehicle to everything

A method and a user equipment (UE) are provided for monitoring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates. A first reference control resource set (CORESET) is identified having a first CORESET pool index value associated with a first transmission and reception point (TRP). A second reference CORESET is identified that is associated with a second TRP. The PDCCH candidates are monitored in the first reference CORESET, the second reference CORESET, and one or more CORESETs that overlap one of the first reference CORESET or the second reference CORESET in a time domain and are associated with a same TRP as the one of the first reference CORESET or the second reference CORESET. The PDCCH candidates are received.

Method and device for PDCCH repetition in multi-TRP system and coreset prioritization

A system and a method are disclosed for performing communication by receiving a light reference signal (RS) on a carrier frequency where a synchronization signal block (SSB) is not detected; in response to receiving the light RS, obtaining a light RS measurement and transmitting a light RS measurement report based on the light RS measurement; and starting to receive at least one SSB on the carrier frequency based on the light RS measurement report.

Secondary cell discovery in energy saving network

Provided is a method of network communication for addressing a misalignment of a CORESET resource allocation with a first RB set due to varying RB set size, the method including determining a CORESET configuration, a search space set configuration, and/or an RB set configuration, determining the search space set configuration includes multiple frequency domain monitoring occasions, identifying a CORESET resource in each of the frequency domain monitoring occasions, determining the CORESET resource is only partially confined within the first RB set, and adjusting a PDCCH-monitoring protocol to improve performance of the CORESET resource.

Coreset frequency resource configuration for wide-band operation in nr-u

A device may perform a transmission that may occupy at least a portion of a first slot and perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) sensing operation, wherein the LBT sensing operation may occupy at least a portion of an LBT gap, and at least a portion of the LBT gap may occupy at least a portion of a second slot. A device may perform a transmission that may occupy at least a portion of a first slot, transmit an indication of a resource for an LBT sensing operation, perform an LBT sensing operation for the transmission that may occupy at least a portion of a second slot, and transmit, based on the LBT sensing operation, a reservation signal that may occupy at least a portion of the second slot. A device select a resource for a transmission using a sidelink channel, and select a resource for an LBT sensing operation.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for slot structure, channel access, and resource allocation for sidelink communications

A method and system include a symbol processing block to generate log likelihood ratios (LLRs) associated with one or more data symbols. The method and system include a channel estimation (CE) module to receive the LLRs from the symbol processing block, and to process iterative CE (ItCE) for new radio (NR) based at least on reference signals and the LLRs. The CE module can process the ItCE with a granularity of one or more resource blocks (RBs) based at least on pilot resource elements (REs) and virtual pilot REs obtained from the LLRs. The CE module can process the ItCE based at least on a frequency domain orthogonal cover codes (FD-OCC) structure of the reference signals. The reference signals can be demodulation reference signals (DMRS) configured in 5G NR. The CE module can process the ItCE by updating a CE result by adding a quantity that represents a contribution obtained from virtual pilot REs.

Iterative channel estimation for new radio (NR)

A method and a user equipment (UE) are provided for resource allocation. The UE receives repeated physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) from a network. Each of the repeated PDCCHs includes downlink control information (DCI) that schedules reception of a same physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) at the UE. The UE determines resources for at least one of transmission and reception at the UE, from a PDCCH having a latest start symbol or a latest ending symbol among the repeated PDCCHs. The repeated PDCCHs are received in accordance with the UE and the network communicating using a multi-transmission reception point (TRP) repetition scheme or a multi-TRP multi-chance scheme.

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Jung Hyun Bae