Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Europe B.v.

Naoki Kusashima

Hiroki Matsuda

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Yifu Tang

Ryota Kimura

Hiroshi Harada

Keiichi Mizutani

Shin Horng Wong

Ryo Sawai

Shinichiro Tsuda

Kyoya Teramae

Martin Warwick Beale

Hiroaki Takano

Yusuke Tanaka

Yassin Aden Awad

Takeshi Matsumura

Hiroto Kuriki

Atsushi Miyamoto

Yukitoshi Sanada

Kazuo Hongo

Ren Sugai

A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit data via a wireless access interface is provided. The method comprises operating in accordance with a configured grant, CG, mode of operation comprising determining a sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface and transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network in at least one instance of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources, transmitting, to the wireless communications network, uplink control information relating to the CG mode of operation, CG-UCI, comprising one or more indicators which indicate information required to support one or more of a plurality of services, the plurality of services including Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications, URLLC, and transmitting the uplink data in accordance with the information required to support the one or more of the plurality of services indicated by the one or more indicators of the transmitted CG-UCI.

Uplink control information related to configured grants

A communication device (A) includes a communication unit () and a control unit (). The communication unit () performs wireless communication with a first communication device () that supports in-band full-duplex (IBFD) communication that transmits and receives wireless signals using at least a part of resources of the same frequency and the same time. The control unit () measures channel quality with a first communication device () at each level of quality of service requested for the wireless communication with the first communication device () on the basis of interference from a second communication device (B) that performs wireless communication with the first communication device ().

Communication device and communication method

There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.

Communication apparatus, control apparatus, and communication system

A mobile device including circuitry configured to: receive one or more synchronization signal blocks periodically transmitted from a base station, each synchronization signal block containing Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), wherein the PBCH carries a Master Information Block (MIB) which contains information of subcarrier interval for System Information Block type 1 (SIB 1); identify an index of a first synchronization signal block among the one or more synchronization signal blocks; and receive Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) being located in a common search space and including an added Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) which is scrambled by System Information Radio Network Temporary Identifier (SI-RNTI), and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) carrying the SIB 1, the PDSCH being scheduled by the PDCCH.

System and method for transmitting control information

A method includes determining an operating mode of a first terminal of the one or more terminals; selecting, based on the operating mode, a first frame configuration from a plurality of frame configurations for the first terminal, each of the plurality of frame configurations configuring one or more of: an offset parameter determining the start of a frame, a Channel Occupancy Time 'COT' duration in a frame, an idle duration in a frame, a frame duration, a frame period and a gap duration between two subsequent frames; and communicating between the first terminal and the base station and via the first frequency band, using contention-based access and based on the first frame configuration.

Terminals, base stations, systems, methods, circuitry and computer program products

A communication device is a device in which a radio connection state with another communication device changes from an unconnected state to a predetermined connected state by performing a predetermined connection procedure. The communication device acquires predetermined information for transmitting data to the another communication device in the unconnected state. The communication device then transmits the data to the another communication device in the unconnected state based on the predetermined information.

Communication device, communication method, and communication program

A method of transmitting acknowledgement information, includes receiving from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network an indication of a plurality of instances of downlink communications resources associated with a semi-persistent resource allocation, the plurality of instances of downlink communications resources allocated for the transmission of data by the infrastructure equipment to the communications device via a wireless access interface, determining that one or more uplink communication resources allocated for the transmission of a portion of acknowledgement information indicating an acknowledgement status of a respective instance of the downlink communication resources is invalid and cannot be used for the transmission of the acknowledgement information, selecting, from a plurality of outstanding portions of acknowledgement information which have not been transmitted, a subset of portions of acknowledgement information, and transmitting to the infrastructure equipment the selected subset of portions of acknowledgement information using a single instance of uplink communication resources.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A terminal device including a control unit that transmits first resource information, which indicates a radio resource available to another communication device among radio resources of which access rights are acquired by performing carrier sense, on an uplink or a sidelink.

Terminal device, base station device, and method

A method of operating a communications device comprises: determining to transmit a first uplink signal comprising a first set of feedback indications in a first set of uplink resources; determining to transmit a second uplink signal comprising a second set of feedback indications in a second set of uplink resources; determining that the first set of uplink resources and the second set of uplink resources are located within a same time slot; transmitting only the second uplink signal instead of both of the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal, the second uplink signal comprising an indication of one or more of the first set of feedback indications; and determining that a downlink assignment index associated with the first set of feedback indications is reduced when the one or more of the first set of feedback indications are indicated within the second uplink signal.

Methods, communications devices, and infrastructure equipment

The communication device includes a first transceiver configured to communicate on a first frequency band that is an unlicensed band and a second transceiver configured to communicate on a second frequency band that is an unlicensed band different from the first frequency band. A controller of the communication device is configured to control transmission of data using either one frequency band of communication on the first frequency band or communication on the second frequency band on the basis of information regarding a resource on the second frequency band transmitted from a first communication device. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a communication device and the like that conducts wireless communication standardized by IEEE 802.11.

A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquiring information from a base station apparatus, a determination unit determining whether a connected base station apparatus is a non-ground station or a ground station based on the acquired information, and a communication controller executing communication control for the non-ground station when it is determined that the connected base station apparatus is the non-ground station.

Communication apparatus, and method of communication

A terminal device that performs communication with a base station, including:

Terminal device, base station device and communication method that use different signal waveforms based on control information when uplink channel is shared channel

Disclosed is a communication device that includes a communication unit and a notification unit. The communication unit, while wirelessly communicating in a first communication mode using a first resource of a predetermined frequency channel, wirelessly communicates in a second communication mode in which a lower delay is required than in the first communication mode using a second resource at least partially overlapping the first resource on a frequency axis and a time axis. The notification unit notifies a reception destination in the first communication mode, of the second resource.

A communication device () includes a sensing unit () that performs channel sensing in an unlicensed band, and a notification unit () that notifies another communication device of space domain information, as channel occupancy information indicating that channel occupancy is performed when the sensing succeeds.

A communication device that operates as a terminal under control of a base station, includes: a communication unit that transmits and receives wireless signals; and a control unit that controls transmission of data using a predetermined resource pool by the communication unit. The control unit determines implementation of relay communication for a packet within the predetermined resource pool on the basis of at least one of information received from the base station, information received from another terminal, or information obtained from the terminal itself, during packet reception, and performs the relay communication by using a resource secured by a transmission source terminal, the terminal itself, or the base station.

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Naoki Kusashima