Nec Corporation

Lenovo Innovations Limited (hong Kong)

Lenovo Innovations Limited

Phong Nguyen

Yuanrong Lan

Pushpika Wijesinghe

Kevin Lin

Huei-Ming Lin

Satha Sathananthan

Jiun Siew

Aziz Rahman

Takahiro Sasaki

Boon Loong Ng

Quang Nguyen

Kanagaratnam Sathananthan

Jolyon White

Rajitha Palipana

A method and system for use in an advanced wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises: providing, to a group of UEs, a resource multiplexing configuration defining resource multiplexing for cellular and non-cellular communication; and allocating resources to the group of UEs for cellular communication, according to the resource multiplexing configuration. Advantageously, the method enables collisions and interference between D2D and cellular transmissions to be reduced or avoided.

Method and system for configuring device-to-device communication

The present disclosure relates to a method of configuring an integrated resource pool for use in an advanced wireless communication system such as 5G (the Fifth Generation) system. The method comprises configuring a first logical resource pool dedicated for V2X sidelink communication, or open loop communication, in sharing driving related application data including but not being limited to status data, sensor data, and intention data. Further, the method comprises configuring a second logical resource pool dedicated for V2X sidelink communication, or closed-loop communication, in sharing time-sensitive coordination data and/or exchanging time-sensitive coordination data in short distance grouping such as synchronised coordination driving and long distance grouping such as platooning. The method further comprises configuring one primary set of resources and one or more secondary sets of resources from the second logical resource pool for secured intra-platoon communications.

System and method for vehicular data communication

In the present invention, a common UL control channel resources is configured and scheduled for sharing among URLLC UEs () within a servicing cell. An enhanced HARQ-less transmission technique () is employed for delivering DL URLLC data packets to the intended UEs (). On DL URLLC data transmission basis, via a scheduling DCI, a gNB () dynamically indicates to the intended URLLC UE (), the UL control resource including the time slots for use in transmitting limited acknowledge information.

Method for use in transmitting URLLC data in NR system

There is provided a signalling method for use in an advanced wireless communication network () that supports a first duplex mode, a second duplex mode different to the first duplex mode, and carrier aggregation of the first second duplex modes. This method includes configuring a UE (-) for data communication with the network () through a first access node () as a PCell, on the first duplex mode and with a first transmission mode (TM) including one or more transport blocks (TBs). This method also includes configuring the UE (-) for data communication with the network () through a second access node () as a SCell, on the second duplex mode and with a second TM including one or more TBs. The second TM associated with the second access node () is configured independently of the first TM associated with the first access node ().

Methods for inter-system carrier aggregation in advanced wireless communication systems

A method for use in a scalable New Radio (NR) cell system comprises, at a gNB: configuring a physical transmission and reception point (TRP) in a New Radio (NR) cell as a high power gNB's distribution unit (DU) operating on a first component carrier (CC) layer; configuring the remaining physical TRPs in the NR cell as low power gNB's DUs operating on one or multiple second CC layers; further configuring the carrier bandwidths on the first CC layer and second CC layers to comprise multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs); via high layer signaling, configuring one or more advanced UEs in services or requesting services with a set of indexed BWPs and a configurable 'initial BWP' for active BWP switching operation; and via high layer signaling, configuring one or more advanced UEs in services or requesting services with two or more sets of indexed BWPs for active BWPs aggregation operation.

System and methods for signals transmission in multi-carriers cell system

A method for providing vehicular communication in an advanced wireless communication system, which includes instant feedback to enable synchronized cooperative driving, is provided. The method comprises: identifying, at a first V2X-UE, one or more second V2X-UEs in proximity to the first V2X-UE; transmitting, from the first V2X-UE- and to the one or more second V2X-UEs, control channel information identifying a portion of a data pool allocated for V2X intention data; transmitting, from the first V2X-UE and to the one or more second V2X-UEs and on the identified portion of the data pool, V2X intention data; and receiving, at a first V2X-UE- and on a reserved feedback channel, confirmation of receipt of the V2X intention data from a V2X-UE of the one or more second V2X-UEs.

System and method for providing vehicular communication in an advanced wireless network

An advanced wireless communication system, and a method for use at an advanced wireless communication system are disclosed that support direct communication to provide flexible resource pool sharing. The method comprises: measuring, at a first UE, utilization of at least one resource pool of a direct communication channel associated with a configured shared region; transmitting, by the first UE and to at least one second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) identifying a selected resource pool of the at least one resource pool; and transmitting, by the first UE and to the at least one second UE, data associated with the SCI in the selected resource pool.

Methods and system for device-to-device communication

There is provided a signaling method for use in an advanced wireless communication network () that supports a first duplex mode, a second duplex mode different to the first duplex mode, and carrier aggregation of the first second duplex modes. This method includes configuring a UE (-) for data communication with the network () through a first access node () as a PCell, on the first duplex mode and with a first transmission mode (TM) including one or more transport blocks (TBs). This method also includes configuring the UE (-) for data communication with the network () through a second access node () as a SCell, on the second duplex mode and with a second TM including one or more TBs. The second TM associated with the second access node () is configured independently of the first TM associated with the first access node ().

A system and method of data communication is provided for use in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a base station, a relay user equipment (UE) and an out of coverage UE (OOC-UE). The method includes receiving, at the relay UE and from the base station, a relay cycle configuration, the relay cycle configuration defining a relay cycle including a first time period for device to device (D2D) communication, and a second time period for cellular communication. The method then includes receiving, at the relay UE by D2D communication, within the first time period and from the out of coverage UE (OOC-UE), relay data, and providing, from the relay UE by cellular communication, within the second time period and to the BS, the relay data.

System and method for data communication

Data communication methods and systems are provided for use in an LTE-based vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. The method () includes: receiving (), on the data interface and according to a predefined timing reference (T) a synchronization signal; determining () a timing synchronization according to the synchronization signal; and transmitting or receiving data according to the timing synchronization. Furthermore, the method may include receiving, on a data interface, a positioning signal; performing a coarse timing synchronization according to the positioning signal; and refining the coarse timing synchronization according to the synchronization signal. Data may be communication using a configurable V2X communication cycle comprising one or more first V2X-communication periods for event-triggered V2X message transmission and one or more second V2X-communication period s for periodic V2X application message transmission.

Vehicle to everything (V2X) communication method and system

An advanced wireless communication system and method for use therein provides adaptive radio access using a plurality of configurable OFDM-based waveforms. The method comprises: receiving, at a UE and on a band-specific fixed system subband, one or more synchronisation signals; determining, at the UE, and according to the synchronisation signals, a base waveform numerology; and receiving, at the UE and according to the base waveform numerology, system information, wherein the system information defines parameters for a service or services.

System and methods for realising adaptive radio access technology in 5G wireless communication system

An advanced wireless communication system supporting Multi-User Superposition Transmission (MUST) includes a plurality of UEs and an advanced base station. A method of using the advanced wireless communication system includes receiving, from a MUST-UE, a MUST receiver scheme; determining a baseline size of second downlink control information according to the received MUST receiver scheme and a MUST transmission technique; configuring the MUST-UE to operate according to a MUST configuration, the MUST configuration including the MUST transmission technique; and transmitting, to the MUST-UE: first downlink control information, including an indication that MUST is used; second downlink control information including assistant information according to the determined baseline size; and a MUST composite data signal on an associated DL shared channel, according to the MUST transmission technique.

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