Acer Inc.

Industrial Technology Research Institute

Li-Chung Lo

Chien-Min Lee

Jen-Hsien Chen

Tsung-Hua Tsai

Ping-Heng Kuo

Chia-Pang Yen

A communication device for handling a reference signal (RS) reporting includes at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device, wherein the at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: receiving at least one reference signal (RS) from a network; performing at least one measurement according to the at least one RS, to generate at least one measurement result; selecting an RS from the at least one RS according to the at least one measurement result; and determining whether to report the RS to the network.

Device and method for handling a reference signal reporting

A communication device for handling physical uplink (UL) shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device, wherein the at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of receiving an indicator indicating a plurality of physical uplink (UL) shared channel (PUSCH) repetitions from a network; determining at least one nominal transmission duration for the plurality of PUSCH repetitions; and transmitting the plurality of PUSCH repetitions to the network in the at least one nominal transmission duration according to the indication.

Device of handling PUSCH transmissions

A communication device for handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission, comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device, wherein the at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: receiving a configuration from a network, wherein the configuration comprises a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table and a set of a plurality of timing values; and receiving a downlink (DL) control information (DCI) from the network, wherein the DCI indicates a row of the TDRA table for at least one physical DL shared channel (PDSCH) reception and indicates a timing value of the set of the plurality of timing values for the HARQ transmission corresponding to the at least one PDSCH reception.

Device and method for handling a hybrid automatic repeat request transmission

A communication device for handling detection of a physical downlink (DL) control channel (PDCCH), comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of detecting a PDCCH for a first serving cell of a network according to at least one first search space (SS) set with a first group index; receiving at least one indicator in a DL control information (DCI) from the network; and detecting the PDCCH for the first serving cell of the network according to the at least one indicator, after receiving the DCI, according to one of the proposed instructions.

Device of handling detection of a PDCCH

A device for handling channel access procedure includes a storage device and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device and configured to execute instructions stored in the storage device. The storage device is configured for storing the instructions of receiving an indication for an uplink transmission; determining at least one parameter of the device for a listen-before-talk procedure according to a capability of the device or a signaling from a base station; and performing the uplink transmission according to the indication.

Device and method for handling channel access procedure

A UE for beam failure detection is provided. The RF signal processing device of the UE assesses a first radio link quality according to a first BFD-reference signal (BFD-RS) set including at least one reference signal, communicating with a plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs) which include at least a first TRP and a second TRP. The processor of the UE is coupled to the RF signal processing device. When the first radio link quality is below a threshold, the processor generates a first indication, wherein the first indication is a first beam failure instance (BFI) or the first BFD-RS set. The processor enables a first timer and a first counter according to the first indication.

User equipment for beam failure detection and beam failure detection method

A UE for beam failure detection is provided. The UE includes a radio frequency (RF) signal processing device. The RF signal processing device receives a first candidate-beam reference-signal (RS) list and a second candidate-beam RS list and reports a beam failure information. The first candidate-beam RS list is associated with a first beam-failure-detection RS (BFD-RS) set and the second candidate-beam RS list is associated with a second BFD-RS set. The beam failure information includes at least one of following: at least on component carrier (CC) index, at least one new candidate beam, an identity of BFD-RS set, or an CORESETPoolIndex.

Equipment for beam failure reporting and beam failure reporting method

A communication device for handling a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission, is configured to execute the instructions of receiving a first physical downlink (DL) shared channel (PDSCH) from a network, wherein a first HARQ feedback corresponding to the first PDSCH is allocated in a first uplink (UL) channel and the first UL channel is corresponding to a first priority index; determining not to transmit the first HARQ feedback in the first UL channel; determining a second UL channel for the first HARQ feedback, wherein the second UL channel is corresponding to a second priority index; and transmitting the first HARQ feedback in the second UL channel.

Device of handling a HARQ retransmission

A communication device for handling an uplink (UL) transmission with a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRSs) comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: selecting a SRS from a plurality of SRSs; performing a channel sensing procedure via a spatial relation associated with the SRS, to obtain a result; and performing an UL transmission via the spatial relation to a network according to the result.

Device and method of handling an uplink transmission with sounding reference signals

A communication device for handling a reference signal (RS) in an unlicensed band comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: receiving a RS from a network; updating a counter, if a quality of the RS is smaller than a measurement threshold value; and restarting a RS timer, when receiving the RS.

Device and method for handling reference signals in an unlicensed band

The disclosure is directed to a method used by a user equipment (UE) to communicate to a base station through a M-TRP in an unlicensed band and a UE using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to a method used by a UE to communicate to a base station through a M-TRP in an unlicensed band. The method would include not limited to: receiving, for a communication operation with a network, a configuration comprising multiple CORESETPoolIndexes; and receiving a PDCCH according to the configuration.

Method used by UE to communicate to base station through M-TRP in unlicensed band and UE using the same

A communication device for handling a reception comprises at least one storage device and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: receiving a DCI from a control resource set; and receiving a PDSCH according to the DCI, wherein the DCI comprising a TCI field, and the TCI field indicating a TCI codepoint corresponding to a first TCI state and a second TCI state.

Device and method for handling a reception

A communication device for handling a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: determining at least one uplink (UL) beamforming weight of at least one SRS according to at least one of a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) or a second CSI-RS, wherein the first CSI-RS is for determining the at least one UL beamforming weight and the second CSI-RS is for a channel interference measurement for the at least one SRS; and transmitting the at least one SRS with the at least one UL beamforming weight to a network according to a beamforming.

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