Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Motorola Mobility LLC

Sun Patent Trust

Lenovo (beijing) Limited

Prateek Basu Mallick

Joachim Loehr

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart

Vijay Nangia

Hyejung Jung

Karthikeyan Ganesan

Lilei Wang

Joachim Löhr

Takako Hori

Genadi Velev

Sujuan Feng

Robert T Love

Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart

Lianhai Wu

Ebrahim MolavianJazi

Joachim Lohr

Michael Einhaus

Masayuki Hoshino

Andreas Kunz

Jing Han

Haiming Wang

Dimitrios Karampatsis

Ayako Horiuchi

Chi Gao

Ali Ramadan Ali

Haipeng Lei

Ankit Bhamri

Rikin Shah

Jie Shi

Jan Ohlhorst

Ravikiran Nory

Li Wang

Hossein Bagheri

Hongmei Liu

Xiaodong Yu

Jens Bachmann

Hyung-Nam Choi

Apostolis K Salkintzis

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Chenxi Zhu

Bingchao Liu

Jie Hu

Zhuoyun Zhang

Ran Yue

Xiaohan Xia

Ravi Kuchibotla

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink communication using multiple protocol stacks. One method () includes assigning () a first protocol stack of a device to network communications. The method () includes assigning () a second protocol stack of the device to sidelink communications. The method () includes generating (), at the second protocol stack, first information based on arrival of data in a sidelink logical channel. The method () includes transmitting () the first information from the second protocol stack to a network device via the first protocol stack.

Sidelink communication using multiple protocol stacks

The present invention relates to selection of synchronization source among various synchronization sources which include sources determining the synchronization signal from the network such as base stations (network nodes) or user equipments which receive the synchronization signal possibly over other hops from the base station, and which further includes sources which do not determine their synchronization signal from the network. The selection of the synchronization source is performed by choosing the source with the most reliable synchronization signal based on a metric calculated for each of the sources considered. In particular, the metric is based on the type of the source, number of hops between the network and the source and/or received signal quality. After selecting the source, the timing of the device is adapted accordingly.

Device to device synchronization source selection

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a communication device, a configuration message including a threshold to configure the communication device; and transmitting, from the communication device, a congestion indication if an occupied buffer size of the communication device is equal to or greater than the threshold.

Method and apparatus for radio link flow control

A radio resource control message comprising an indication of a random access channel preamble, a reference signal resource, or both can be received. A reference signal can be received on the reference signal resource. A random access channel preamble can be selected based at least in part on the reference signal satisfying a threshold. The selected random access channel preamble can be transmitted during a random access procedure.

Method and apparatus for random access on a wireless communication network

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting device capability information. The method includes operating a device with multiple antenna port groups for communication between the device and a network. The method includes transmitting, by the device, device capability information to the network. The device capability information includes a number of antenna port groups of the multiple antenna port groups, a number of antenna ports for each of the antenna port groups, a maximum number of supported spatial layers for each of the antenna port groups, or some combination thereof.

Methods and devices for transmitting device capability information

A method allocates radio resources for a transmitting user equipment (UE) to perform direct communication transmissions over a direct sidelink connection to one or more receiving UEs. At least two sidelink grant processes are provided in the transmitting UE for the transmitting UE to handle at least two sidelink grants within the same transmission control period. Each one of the sidelink grant processes is associated with an identification and can be associated with one sidelink grant. The transmitting UE acquires at least two sidelink grants and associates each of the acquired sidelink grants with one sidelink grant process. For each sidelink grant, the transmitting UE allocates radio resources according to the respective sidelink grant to perform a direct communication transmission of sidelink control information and of data over the direct sidelink connection. The transmitting UE performs a direct communication transmission per acquired sidelink grant within the same transmission control period.

Multiple prose group communication during a sidelink control period

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmissions based on a type of collision. One method () includes determining () that a first transmission resource corresponding to a first user equipment preempts a second transmission resource corresponding to a second user equipment as a result of a collision between the first transmission re-source and the second transmission resource in a shared resource pool. The method () includes transmitting (), from the second user equipment, a request for resource reselection and activation in response to a type of collision being a periodic collision or a series collision; or transmitting, from the second user equipment, the request for resource reselection in response to the type of collision being a one-time collision.

Transmissions based on a type of collision

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient management of multiple active BWPs. One apparatus includes a memory comprising instructions executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to receive a configuration for a plurality of bandwidth parts ('BWPs') for the serving cell, where the configuration indicates a mapping between a respective BWP and a corresponding logical channel. The instructions are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to receive an uplink grant of uplink resources on at least one of the plurality of BWPs and prioritize data for uplink transmission on the uplink grant based at least in part on the mapping between the respective BWP and the corresponding logical channel.

Procedures for multiple active bandwidth parts

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, information indicating whether busy indication functionality is supported or not, wherein the busy indication functionality is associated with at least one of Core Network (CN) paging or Radio Access Network (RAN) paging. In addition, a cause value indicating busy indication between Xn interface can be used to determine whether the path switching should be performed or not.

Method and apparatus for paging control

An operation mode from a plurality of operation modes can be determined () based on at least one traffic type originated from a UE. The plurality of operation modes can include at least one group operation mode and an individual operation mode. The at least one group operation mode can support a plurality of UEs grouped into a group of UEs. The at least one group operation mode can support at least one network entity communicating associated messages with the group of UEs including the UE. The associated messages can be associated with the group of UEs. A network entity can be informed () of the determined operation mode.

Apparatus and method of determining an operation mode on a wireless network

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for extracting EtherCAT datagrams from an EtherCAT frame. One method includes receiving an EtherCAT frame. The method includes determining a first EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT frame for a first device and a second EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT frame for a second device. The method includes extracting the first EtherCAT datagram from the EtherCAT frame to result in an extracted first EtherCAT datagram and the second EtherCAT datagram from the EtherCAT frame to result in an extracted second EtherCAT datagram. The method includes transmitting the extracted first EtherCAT datagram directly to the first device. The method includes transmitting the extracted second EtherCAT datagram directly to the second device.

Extracting EtherCAT datagrams from an EtherCAT frame

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for handling LBT failure for a set of panels/beams. One apparatus () includes a transceiver () that includes a plurality of UE panels associated with one or more beams. The apparatus () includes a processor () that performs () a LBT procedure for a configured set of UE Tx panels corresponding to an uplink transmission. The processor () declares () LBT failure for the uplink transmission in response to determining that the LBT procedure has failed for all UE Tx panels in the configured set and increments () a LBT failure counter in response to LBT failure for the uplink transmission.

LBT procedure for a set of panels and/or beams

The present disclosure relates to transmitting transport blocks in subframes of a predefined length within a wireless communication system. A downlink control information including a resource grant comprising a predetermined modulation and a predetermined transport block size is received (user equipment is the transmitter) or generated (base station is the transmitter). Then transport block including channel coded data to be transmitted in a subframe with the predetermined modulation and the predetermined transport block size is generated. Sensing is performed in the subframes and based thereon, it is determined whether a partial subframe or a complete subframe is available for transmission of the generated transport block. Finally, the transport block is transmitted with a modified modulation different from the predetermined modulation if the partial rather than complete subframe is available. Correspondingly, at the receiver, the grant is received (user equipment is receiver) or generated (base station is the receiver), the size of the subframe in which the reception is expected is determined and then the transport block is received with a modified modulation if only the partial subframe is available.

Modulation order adaptation for partial subframes

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for deactivation of a bandwidth part (BWP). A base station may be configured to transmit a first configuration for one or more uplink (UL) BWPs, for a carrier of a serving cell, where at least one UL BWP of the one or more UL BWPs is an active UL BWP associated with a first numerology. The base station may be further configured to transmit a second configuration for a sidelink (SL) BWP, for the carrier of the serving cell, wherein the SL BWP is associated with a second numerology, where the SL BWP is deactivated in response to the first numerology being different than the second numerology.

Efficient BWP operation for sidelink operation

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for absence time request and user equipment (UE) behavior during the absence time. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a UE for wireless communication includes: transmitting a request for an absence time to a base station (BS); receiving a response assigning the absence time from the BS; suspending a connection to the BS upon receiving the response; and resuming the connection to the BS before or at the end of the absence time.

Method and apparatus for absence time request

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