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Philip J Pietraski

Guodong Zhang

Kyle Jung-Lin Pan

Sung-Hyuk Shin

Ravikumar V Pragada

Rui Yang

Erdem Bala

Mihaela C Beluri

Janet A Stern-Berkowitz

Joseph S Levy

Gregory S Sternberg

Jean-Louis Gauvreau

Samian Kaur

Tao Deng

Stephen E Terry

Alexander Reznik

Robert L Olesen

Carl Wang

Alpaslan Demir

John W Haim

Eldad M Zeira

Douglas R Castor

Arnab Roy

Marian Rudolf

Yugeswar Deenoo

Onur Sahin

Donald M Grieco

Yongwen E Yang

Paul Marinier

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Yingxue K Li

Gregg Arthur Charlton

Stephen G Dick

Kai Li

Bin Li

Pascal M Adjakple

Peter Shaomin Wang

Allan Yingming Tsai

Diana Pani

Christopher R Cave

Benoit Pelletier

Shankar Somasundaram

Robert A DiFazio

Charles A Dennean

Zinan Lin

In H Kim

Jin Wang

Jung-Lin Pan

Chang-Soo Koo

Kiran K Vanganuru

Kenneth Kearney

Steven Ferrante

Sana Sfar

Fatih M Ozluturk

Vincent Roy

Muhammad U Fazili

Kandarp Shah

Chunxuan Ye

Moon-il Lee

Ariela Zeira

Joseph M Murray

Yogendra C Shah

Ana Lucia Pinheiro

Aykut Bultan

Weimin Liu

Yingming Tsai

Patrick Cabrol

Sasidhar Movva

Kyle Pan

Jialing Li

Sudhir B Pattar

Paul Russell

Joe Huang

Bharath Viswanathan

Tariq Elkourdi

Mohammed Sammour

Behrouz Aghili

Balaji B Raghothaman

Ana Lucia A Pinheiro

Louis J Guccione

Alan Gerald Carlton

Amith Vikram Chincholi

Dirk Trossen

Yan Li

Changsoo Koo

William E Lawton

Hongsan Sheng

Kevin T Wanuga

Andrew F Bednarz

Matthew G Puzio

Mohamed Abou El Seoud

Prabakar R Chitrapu

Eidad M Zeira

Zhemin Xu

Kenneth P Kearney

Samian J Kaur

Carl S Wang

A method performed by a base station may comprise: receiving RADAR information; sending scheduling information, wherein the scheduling information includes a set of time and frequency resources associated with a physical downlink transmission that avoid RADAR interference, and wherein the set of time and frequency resources is determined based on the RADAR information; and sending the physical downlink transmission using resources based on the set of time and frequency resources.

System and method for implementing PDSCH enhancements for radar coexistence

A method and apparatus for power control for distributed wireless communication is disclosed including one or more power control loops associated with a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). Each power control loop may include open loop power control or closed loop power control. A multi-phase power control method is also disclosed with each phase representing a different time interval and a WTRU sends transmissions at different power levels to different set of node-Bs or relay stations during different phases to optimize communications.

Uplink power control for distributed wireless communication

A base station may sense, on a cell using unlicensed spectrum, that the unlicensed spectrum is available for transmission. The base station may transmit, after sensing that the unlicensed spectrum is available, consecutive subframes. Each subframe may include a physical downlink control channel and a physical downlink shared channel.

Wireless operation in unlicensed spectrum

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives first timing advances and first power control commands from a first eNodeB and second timing advances and second power control commands from a second eNodeB and transmits, to the first eNodeB, a first physical uplink control channel using a first uplink component carrier. The first physical uplink control channel has a first timing adjusted by the first timing advances but not by the second timing advances and a first power level adjusted by the first power control commands but not by the second power control commands. The WTRU transmits a second physical uplink control channel using a second uplink component carrier. The second physical uplink control channel has a second timing adjusted by the second timing advances but not by the first timing advances and a second power level adjusted by the second power control commands but not by the first power control commands.

Method and apparatus for enhancing cell-edge user performance and signaling radio link failure conditions via downlink cooperative component carriers

A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) for Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) using carrier aggregation is disclosed. Methods for UCI transmission in the uplink control channel, uplink shared channel or uplink data channel are disclosed. The methods include transmitting channel quality indicators (CQI), precoding matrix indicators (PMI), rank indicators (RI), hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), channel status reports (CQI/PMI/RI), source routing (SR) and sounding reference signals (SRS). In addition, methods for providing flexible configuration in signaling UCI, efficient resource utilization, and support for high volume UCI overhead in LTE-A are disclosed.

Uplink control information transmission methods for carrier aggregation

Methods and apparatus for sounding reference signal (SRS) power control for a wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) are disclosed. These methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for carrier-specific and carrier-common SRS power control in WTRUs that utilize carrier aggregation techniques. These methods and apparatus also include methods and apparatus for SRS power control in WTRUs utilizing both carrier aggregation and time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques. Additionally, these methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for SRS power control for WTRUs utilizing multiple input multiple output MIMO operation. Methods and apparatus for SRS overhead reduction and power management in a WTRU are also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for power control of sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission

A method, system and apparatus are described for implementing a tiered SSB framework for radar coexistence. A tiered-SSB based radio resource management may be implemented. Tiered-SSB based radio resource management are implemented in downlink and/or uplink.

Tiered SSB based radio resource management for radar coexistence

Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.

Method and apparatus for data-splitting transmission from multiple sites

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) (e.g., a millimeter WTRU (mWTRU)) may receive a first control channel using a first antenna pattern. The WTRU may receive a second control channel using a second antenna pattern. The WTRU may demodulate and decode the first control channel. The WTRU may demodulate and decode the second control channel. The WTRU may determine, using at least one of: the decoded first control channel or the second control channel, beam scheduling information associated with the WTRU and whether the WTRU is scheduled for an mmW segment. The WTRU may form a receive beam using the determined beam scheduling information. The WTRU receive the second control channel using the receive beam. The WTRU determine, by demodulating and decoding the second control channel, dynamic per-TTI scheduling information related to a data channel associated with the second control channel.

mmW physical layer downlink channel scheduling and control signaling

Methods and apparatuses for millimeter wave (mmW) beam acquisition are disclosed. An apparatus may include a processor and a transceiver configured to receive a plurality of signals. The plurality of signals may be swept over time using a respective plurality of beams, and each signal of the plurality of signals may include a sequence based on an index of a respective one of the plurality of beams. The processor and the transceiver may take a measurement of a first signal of the plurality of signals. The transceiver may transmit a measurement report including the measurement of the first signal of the plurality of signals and the index of a respective one of the plurality of beams.

Method and apparatus for a millimeter wave communication system

A method and apparatus are disclosed for communication in a Millimeter Wave Hotspot (mmH) backhaul system which uses mesh nodes. A mmH mesh node may receive a control signal which includes a total number of available control slots. The mesh node may determine the number of iterations of a resource scheduling mechanism that can be made during the time period of all available control slots, based on the number of neighbor nodes for the mesh node. Further, the mesh node may receive control slot information, including information about traffic queues and priorities. The mesh node may then perform resource scheduling using the resource scheduling mechanism based on the currently received control slot information and control slot information received in previous iterations of resource scheduling. The mesh node may also adjust a preamble based on a time between a last packet transmission and a current packet transmission to a neighboring node.

Method and system for millimeter wave hotspot (mmH) backhaul and physical (PHY) layer transmissions

Methods of mapping, indicating, encoding and transmitting uplink (UL) grants and downlink (DL) assignments for wireless communications for carrier aggregation are disclosed. Methods to encode and transmit DL assignments and UL grants and map and indicate the DL assignments to DL component carriers and UL grants to UL component carriers are described. Methods include specifying the mapping rules for DL component carriers that transmit DL assignment and DL component carriers that receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and mapping rules for DL component carriers that transmit UL grants and UL component carriers that transit physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) when using separate coding/separate transmission schemes.

Uplink grant, downlink assignment and search space method and apparatus in carrier aggregation

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives control information over a physical downlink control channel in a shared radio resource space monitored by the WTRU. The control information includes radio resource assignment information and an indication of whether the control information includes radio resource assignment information for an uplink shared channel or whether the control information includes radio resource assignment information for a downlink shared channel. The WTRU determines whether the control information is intended for the WTRU based on WTRU identity-masked (ID-masked) cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits. The WTRU determines, based on the indication, whether the control information is for the uplink shared channel or whether the control information is for the downlink shared channel. The WTRU transmits data over the uplink shared channel based on the radio resource assignment information on a condition that the control information is determined to be for the uplink shared channel.

Method and apparatus for providing channel assignment information used to support uplink and downlink channels

Methods, devices and systems are provided for performing a random access (RA) procedure. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive RA resource sets, where each of the RA resource sets is associated with a node-B directional beam, select an RA resource set from among the RA resource sets, and initiate an RA procedure based on the selected RA resource set. The RA procedure may include selecting multiple preambles which include a preamble for each resource of a plurality of resources corresponding to the selected RA resource set. The WTRU may be configured to sequentially transmit the selected multiple preambles in sequential RA transmissions, and may be configured to receive, from a node-B, in response to the RA transmissions, at least one RA response (RAR), where each of the received at least one RAR corresponds to one of the transmitted multiple preambles.

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