Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Sharp Corporation

Kai Ying

Tatsushi Aiba

John Michael Kowalski

Kazunari Yokomakura

Zhanping Yin

Toshizo Nogami

Jia Sheng

Kenneth James Park

Lizhong Zheng

KyungHo Kim

Kyungho Kim

A user equipment (UE) is described. Receiving circuitry receives first information and second information. Monitoring circuitry monitors downlink control information (DCI) carried by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The first information indicates information to configure a first control resource set (CORESET) pool and a second CORESET pool. The second information indicates information on a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state for CORESETs associated with the first CORESET pool and a TCI state for CORESETs associated the second CORESET pool. The DCI carried by a first PDCCH is monitored by a CORESET associated with the first CORESET pool. The DCI carried by a second PDCCH is monitored by a CORESET associated with the second CORESET pool.

User equipments, base stations and methods for multi-panel/TRP PDCCH transmission and reception

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) format used for scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The DCI includes a priority indicator. The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform channel state information (CSI) reporting on a first physical uplink channel based on the priority indicator in a case that the first physical uplink channel overlaps with a second physical uplink channel.

User equipments, base stations and methods for priority rules of channel state information reports

A user equipment (UE) is described. Higher layer circuitry is configured to receive information to configure a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition. Receiving circuitry is configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit a PUSCH. A redundancy version field in the DCI indicates a pattern of redundancy versions for each repetition. A sounding reference signal index (SRI) field indicates a pattern of sounding reference signal indexes for each repetition.

User equipments, base stations and methods for multi-panel PUSCH transmission

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

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive downlink control information (DCI). The DCI includes a time domain resource assignment field The UE also includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a resource allocation based on the DCI with the time domain resource assignment field.

User equipments, base stations and signaling for resource allocations of enhanced uplink transmissions

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a first DCI format comprising one bit of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) indicator, the first DCI format being used for scheduling of a PUSCH. The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a second DCI format comprising more than one bits of an UL-SCH indicator, the second DCI format being used for scheduling of a PUSCH. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on a detection of the first DCI format, a transmission on the PUSCH. The transmitting circuitry is also configured to perform, based on a detection of the second DCI format, a transmission on the PUSCH. The one bit of the UL-SCH indicator is used for indicating whether or not UL-SCH is transmitted on the PUSCH. The more than one bits of the UL-SCH indicator are used for indicating whether or not UCI is transmitted on the PUSCH.

User equipments, base stations and methods for indication of uplink transmission

The UE includes higher layer circuitry configured to receive information including more than one transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. The UE also includes medium access control (MAC) circuitry configured to receive a first MAC control element (CE) and a second MAC CE. The UE further includes reception circuitry configured to receive first downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and second DCI on a PDCCH. The first MAC CE selects one of more TCI states from the more than one TCI states and maps the selected one or more TCI states to the codepoints of a TCI field in the second DCI. The second MAC CE selects one of more TCI states from the more than one TCI states and maps the selected one or more TCI states to the codepoints of the TCI field in the second DCI.

User equipments, base stations and methods for transmission configuration indication for PDSCH

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

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). In a case that a number of bits for downlink control information (DCI) used for indicating an index of an uplink antenna port(s) is more than 1 bit, the DMRS for the PUSCH is transmitted using the index of an uplink antenna port(s) indicated by using the DCI used for indicating the index of the uplink antenna port(s). In a case that a number of bits for downlink control information (DCI) used for indicating an index of an uplink antenna port(s) is 0 bit, the DMRS for the PUSCH is transmitted using an index of the uplink antenna port(s) configured by using first information.

User equipments, base stations and methods for configurable downlink control information for demodulation reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel

Examples of user equipments (UEs) are described. A UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first information to configure one or more channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) for tracking and second information to configure time domain correlation related information. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report including the time domain correlation related information. A first parameter trs-Info is included in the first information. A second parameter reportQuantity is not set to 'none'. The time domain correlation related information is measured by the one or more CSI-RS for tracking.

User equipments, base stations and methods for time domain correlation information reporting

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive signaling that comprises a configuration for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a grant-based PUSCH. The UE also includes a higher layer processor configured to determine whether to use multi-segment transmissions and mini-slot repetitions for the configured grant PUSCH or grant-based PUSCH. The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multi-segment transmissions and the mini-slot repetitions for the configured grant PUSCH or grant-based PUSCH.

User equipment, base stations and signaling for enhanced uplink transmissions

The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive first information, second information, a first downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a second DCI on a PDCCH. The UE also includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A CSI request field in the first DCI is configured by the first information. A CSI request field in the second DCI is configured by the second information. The first information includes trigger states for aperiodic CSI reporting for the first DCI. The CSI request field in the second DCI is configured by the second information.

User equipments, base stations and methods for CSI request

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) format used for scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) transmission which is identified as a high priority. The transmitting circuitry is further configured to perform HARQ-ACK transmission corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by using a PDCCH for the DCI format which is detected in a common search space associated with a control resource set #0 (a CORESET #0).

User equipments, base stations and methods for a priority of uplink transmission(s)

Examples of user equipments (UEs) are described. A UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first information to configure one or more channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) for tracking and second information to configure time domain correlation related information. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report including the time domain correlation related information. A first parameter trs-Info is included in the first information. A second parameter indicates one of a periodic CSI report, semi-persistent CSI report, and aperiodic CSI report. The time domain correlation related information is measured by the one or more CSI-RS for tracking. The CSI report including the time domain correlation related information is transmitted based on the second parameter.

User equipments, base stations and methods for time domain correlation information signaling

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first information, second information, and a downlink control information (DCI) format comprising a value of a carrier indicator field. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform, based on the DCI format, a transmission of a physical uplink shared channel on a serving cell. A maximum value of the second information is determined based on the number of serving cell(s) with downlink bandwidth part(s) (DL BWP(s)) where the search space set(s) for which the monitoring of the PDCCH for the DCI format is configured.

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