Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited

Other

Lenovo Limited

Lianhai Wu

Haiming Wang

Jing Han

Jie Shi

Haipeng Lei

Xiaodong Yu

Zhi Yan

Jie Hu

Hongmei Liu

Zhennian Sun

Haibo Xu

Hua Zhou

Prateek Basu Mallick

Zhuoyun Zhang

Chenxi Zhu

Mingzeng Dai

Meiyi Jia

Ran Yue

Hongchao Li

Bingchao Liu

Joachim Lohr

Yulong Shi

Joachim Loehr

Congchi Zhang

Joachim Löhr

Le Yan

Genadi Velev

Wei Ling

Yingying Li

Yanling Lu

Ningjuan Chang

Hyung-Nam Choi

Tao Qiu

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Robert T Love

Xin Guo

Lingling Xiao

Yi Zhang

Tingfang Tang

Weiwei Wang

Yuantao Zhang

Karthikeyan Ganesan

Qinyan Jiang

Majid Ghanbarinejad

Min Xu

Robert Tristan Love

Yibin Zhuo

Zhaojun Li

The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for multiplexing MAC CEs. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method including: receiving an uplink grant associated with a first retransmission scheme; selecting one or more first media access control (MAC) control elements (CEs) from a first number of MAC CEs according to the first retransmission scheme, wherein the one or more first MAC CEs are associated with the first retransmission scheme; and multiplexing the one or more first MAC CEs to a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) associated with an uplink grant.

Method and apparatus for multiplexing MAC CEs

Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for reporting successful handover related information and/or failure related information by a user equipment to a base station. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a user equipment, including indicating, in an indication message, availability of successful handover related information and/or availability of failure related information, and transmitting the successful handover related information and/or the failure related information to a base station (BS) in response to reception of a request message from the BS, wherein the request message is based on the indication message.

Methods and apparatuses for reporting handover related information

Disclosed are methods for a random access. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method performed by a gNB, including determining a user equipment (UE) to enter an RRC_INACTIVE state by a gNB central unit (gNB-CU), sending a UE context suspension indication and a UE identification (ID) of small data transmission (SDT) to at least one first gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU) by the gNB-CU, storing the UE ID of SDT and keeping a UE context of SDT by the at least one first gNB-DU, and treating the UE in the RRC_INACTIVE state and forwarding a radio resource control (RRC) release manage to the UE by the at least one first gNB-DU, wherein the UE context suspension indication is for indicating the at least one first gNB-DU to keep a the UE context of SDT in the RRC_INACTIVE state, and the UE ID of SDT is for identifying the UE context of SDT. Related apparatuses are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatuses for small data transmission

The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for performing a handover procedure. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method, which includes: receiving a configuration signaling including first configuration information or second configuration information; determining a first target primary cell (PCell) based on the configuration signaling; and performing a handover procedure to the first target PCell.

Method and apparatus for performing handover procedure

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include: determining whether a user equipment (UE) in an RRC_IDLE state or RRC_INACTIVE state should enter an RRC_CONNECTED state for reception of at least one MBS session; and transmitting indication information for indicating whether the UE should enter the RRC_CONNECTED state.

Methods and apparatuses for multicast and broadcast services

The subject application relates to method and apparatus of group-based resource allocation. A method performed by a first Base station (BS), comprises: transmitting a scheduling user equipment (S-UE) qualification criterion to a group of UEs; receiving at least one request for being a first S-UE from at least one member UE (M-UE) in the group that satisfies the S-UE qualification criterion; transmitting a signal indicating the first S-UE based on the at least one request; and transmitting, to the first S-UE, group-based resource information for the group of UEs.

Method and apparatus of group-based resource allocation

The present application relates to NB-IoT system and a self-optimization network information transmission method thereof. The NB-IoT system includes a base station and a user equipment. The base station transmits a configuration to the user equipment. The user equipment transmits a self-optimization network information to the base station based on the configuration. The configuration is for the user equipment to transmit the self-optimization network information as one of: transmitting the self-optimization network information to the base station after receiving a self-optimization network parameter from another base station; and transmitting the self-optimization network information to the base station after a specific period.

Narrowband internet of things system and self-optimization network information transmission method thereof

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for task management in next generation networks (NGNs). According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving a request message for requesting candidate configuration of a task result feedback (TRF) on a task associated with a UE; transmitting a task status report configuration to a first edge data network (EDN), wherein the first EDN includes a server to perform the task; and receiving a task status report associated with the task from the first EDN. Embodiments of the present application can efficiently satisfy the quality of service (QoS) or quality of experience (QoE) requirements (such as latency, energy, computational capability and so on) of a UE during a handover procedure.

Method and apparatus for task management in next generation networks

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for updating SRS spatial relation information. One method includes transmitting first information indicating SRS spatial relation information for an SRS resource. The SRS spatial relation information includes: SRS spatial relation information identifiers; and an SRS spatial relation information reference signal corresponding to each SRS spatial relation information identifier. The method includes transmitting second information indicating an update to the SRS spatial relation information. The second information includes: a serving cell identifier; a bandwidth part identifier; one or more SRS resource identifiers, one or more SRS resource set identifiers, or a combination thereof; and one or more SRS spatial relation information identifiers. Each of the one or more SRS resource identifiers corresponds to each of the one or more SRS spatial relation information identifiers.

Updating sounding reference signal spatial relation information

Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for sidelink DRX operation. An exemplary method may include: configuring DRX information for sidelink, wherein the DRX information includes a value of DRX on-duration timer, a DRX cycle, and at least one DRX offset value; and starting the DRX on-duration timer from a beginning position based on the DRX cycle and the DRX offset value.

Method and apparatus for sidelink DRX operation

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for selecting a base unit in response to a handover condition being triggered. One method () includes selecting () a base unit of multiple base units for handover in response to at least one base unit of the multiple base units triggering a handover condition. The method () includes transmitting () a random access preamble to the base unit. The method () includes performing () a reestablishment procedure to establish communication with one base unit of the multiple base units in response to determining an inability to access each base unit of the multiple base units that meets the handover condition.

Selecting a base unit in response to a handover condition being triggered

The present application is related to a method of failure handling in conditional handover. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) comprises: receiving a Conditional Handover (CHO) configuration; initiating a re-establishment procedure if one of a plurality first conditions is met; performing a cell selection procedure; performing a CHO procedure if a cell selected through the cell selection procedure is configured with the CHO configuration; and performing the re-establishment procedure if the selected cell is not configured with the CHO configuration.

Method of failure handling in conditional handover

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for data transmission. An exemplary method includes: receiving a data transmission request from a first base station, in a second base station, wherein the data transmission request indicates data transmission information on a data transmission; determining whether to transmit the data transmission by the second base station or make an anchor relocation for the data transmission based on the data transmission information and assistant information associated with the data transmission; and transmitting a data transmission response to the first base station based on the determining.

Method and apparatus for data transmission

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: transmitting, at an access node, a failure information message to a base station, wherein the access node is connected to the base station via a master node and a secondary node, and wherein the failure information message includes a failure type of a backhaul link. The failure type is based on a failure type set including at least the following: an expiry of a physical layer problem timer, a random access problem, and reaching a maximum number of retransmission in response to radio link failure (RLF).

Method and apparatus for reporting failure information in a communication system

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and an apparatus for or small data transmission of a user equipment (UE) in an RRC_IDLE state or an RRC_INACTIVE state. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: a method may include maintaining a priority variable for each logical channel of at least one logical channel; determining a value of the priority variable for each logical channel after performing a first logical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure; receiving a message indicating a MAC reset; and after receiving the message, in a second LCP procedure subsequent to the first LCP procedure, using the value as an initial value of the priority variable for each logical channel of the at least one logical channel. Embodiments of the present application can satisfy the QoS requirement and fairness for the traffics transmitted in the logical channels in NR systems.

Method and apparatus for small data transmission

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