Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Idac Holdings, Inc.

Interdigital Technology Corporation

Drnc Holdings, Inc.

Integrated Patent Holdings, Inc.

Vid Scale, Inc.

Ravikumar V Pragada

Tao Deng

Philip J Pietraski

Yugeswar Deenoo

Mihaela C Beluri

Anantharaman Balasubramanian

Samian Kaur

Tanbir Haque

Janet A Stern-Berkowitz

Gregory S Sternberg

Moon-il Lee

Balaji B Raghothaman

Erdem Bala

Kyle Jung-Lin Pan

Alexander Reznik

Alpaslan Demir

Pascal M Adjakple

Eldad M Zeira

Rui Yang

Saad Ahmad

Guanzhou Wang

Douglas R Castor

Marian Rudolf

Stephen E Terry

Ulises Olvera-Hernandez

Michael F Starsinic

Liangping Ma

Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni

Ghyslain Pelletier

Diana Pani

Benoit Pelletier

Ariela Zeira

Kamel M Shaheen

Joseph S Levy

Joseph M Murray

James M Miller

Juan Carlos Zuniga

Yingxue K Li

Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar

Alphan Sahin

Frank La Sita

John V Thommana

Faris Alfarhan

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Vincent Roy

Yogendra C Shah

Monisha Ghosh

Hang Liu

Arnab Roy

Patrick Cabrol

Hussain Elkotby

Onur Sahin

Kiran K Vanganuru

Nagi Jayaraman Mahalingam

Zhuorong Deng

Carl Wang

Steven Ferrante

Sanjay Goyal

Kai Li

Gregg Arthur Charlton

William E Lawton

Kevin T Wanuga

Kandarp Shah

Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

Muhammad U Fazili

Bharath Viswanathan

Daniel R Cohen

Mahmoud Abdelgelil

Angelo A Cuffaro

Vinod Kumar Choyi

Michelle Perras

John L Tomici

Samir Ferdi

Alan Gerald Carlton

Brian Gregory Kiernan

Jun Xu

Edward L Hepler

Xavier De Foy

Weimin Liu

Gwenael Poitau

Dirk Trossen

Ali Esswie

Sana Sfar

Dylan James Watts

Michel Roy

Hongsan Sheng

Zhifeng Chen

Avi Rapaport

William Francoeur

Ojas Kanhere

Mohamed Abou El Seoud

Eun Ryu

Matthew G Puzio

Manish Kumar

Janet A Stern-berkowitz

Ayaskant Rath

Mohammadreza Radmanesh

Matthew Dechering

Transmit and/or receive beamforming may be applied to the control channel transmission/reception, e.g., in mmW access link system design. Techniques to identify candidate control channel beams and/or their location in the subframe structure may provide for efficient WTRU operation. A framework for beam formed control channel design may support varying capabilities of mBs and/or WTRUs, and/or may support time and/or spatial domain multiplexing of control channel beams. For a multi-beam system, modifications to reference signal design may discover, identify, measure, and/or decode a control channel beam. Techniques may mitigate inter-beam interference. WTRU monitoring may consider beam search space, perhaps in addition to time and/or frequency search space. Enhancements to downlink control channel may support scheduling narrow data beams. Scheduling techniques may achieve high resource utilization, e.g., perhaps when large bandwidths are available and/or WTRUs may be spatially distributed.

Downlink control channel design and signaling for beamformed systems

Methods, systems, and devices for in-channel narrowband (NB) companion air interface (CAI) assisted wideband (WB) random access channel (RACH) access. Periodic NB downlink (DL) synchronization sequences are detected. Range information is estimated by measuring the periodic NB DL synchronization sequences; and determining an NB CAI RACH occasion. The range information is transmitted to a gNode B (gNB), or other base station, in a NB CAI RACH procedure. At least one selected WB sequence based on the range information and at least one scheduled WB RACH occasion based on the NB CAI RACH occasion are received from the gNB. A contention free WB RACH procedure is performed based on the received at least one selected WB sequence and the at least one scheduled WB RACH occasion.

In-channel narrowband companion air-interface assisted wideband RACH procedures

A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include sending, to a network, a registration message indicating the WTRU is capable of device-to-device (D2D) communication and sending a request for assistance in discovering at least one other WTRU in proximity to the WTRU. The method may include receiving, from the network, in response to the request for assistance in discovering the at least one other WTRU, assistance information including one or more of a unique identifier or filtering information. The method may include performing, using the assistance information, a device discovery procedure to discover the at least one other WTRU, wherein the device discovery procedure comprises at least one of: monitoring for signals from the at least one other WTRU using the assistance information, or sending a discovery announcement based on the assistance information and transmitting application data directly to the at least one other WTRU.

Resource allocation for device-to-device (D2D) communications

The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus for operation by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first device, a request to send a transmission to a second device via resonance magnetic coupling, the request including capability information indicating a set of load termination states supported by the first device; sending to the first device, measurement configuration information, the measurement configuration information including information indicating (1) timing and/or frequency information to schedule the measurement of a signal strength received by the first device; and (2) at least one load termination state of the set of load termination states to be used by the first device when performing measurements; receiving from the first device, measurement information resulting from measurements performed by the first device in accordance with the sent measurement configuration information; determining a load termination state for the first device based on the measurement information; and sending to the first device, information indicating the determined load termination state for the first device.

Methods and apparatus for load-based access control in resonance magnetic coupled networks

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

Wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The WTRUs/UAVs may cooperate to exchange channel busy ratio (CBR) and/or CBR statistics of one or more (e.g., all) the carriers that the WTRUs/UAVs monitors with each other for carrier selection/carrier reselection. A network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection. For example, a network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection based on the congestion that the network infers (e.g., through the CBR measurements reported by the WTRUs/UAVs and/or through its own measurements). MAC/PHY layers may be configured to perform transmit adaptation during PDCP packet duplication. For example, the carrier aggregation capability of receivers may be considered to adapt the number of transmissions per carrier. Based on the carrier aggregation capability of the receivers, the number of transmissions at one or more (e.g., every) carriers may be optimized jointly across carriers.

Carrier aggregation for wireless transmit/receive unit

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed herein associated with enabling target localization with bi/multi-static measurements in new radio (NR). Bi-static or multi-static configurations with potential targets may be formed with nodes (e.g., WTRUs, gNBs, etc.) of mobile wireless communication systems, for example, to enable target localization applications. Target localization may be enhanced based on using determined configurations to reduce target localization estimation errors.

Enabling target localization with bi/multi-static measurements in NR

Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method may be implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for communication via a network access point (NAP). The method may include the WTRU receiving from the NAP a set of preambles and corresponding propagation delay related thresholds and determining propagation delay related information associated with a distance between the WTRU and the NAP or a location in a coverage of the NAP. The method may further include selecting a subset of preambles from the set of preambles based on the determined propagation delay related information, randomly selecting a preamble from the selected subset of preambles, and sending the randomly selected preamble to the NAP.

Methods, apparatus, systems and procedures for distance dependent random access channel (RACH) preamble selection in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)

Systems, devices and methods for a backscatter measurement based multiple RACH preamble transmissions are disclosed. A WTRU may receive a JCS-RS configuration comprising a minimum RACH preamble retransmission interval. The JCS-RS configuration may comprise a JCS backscatter power fraction (λ) of the WTRU transmit power (P). The WTRU may transmit a RACH preamble in a RACH occasion corresponding to a preferred SS/PBCH Index using an initial WTRU transmit beam, having an associated first RA-RNTI value. The backscatter power (P) may be measured using the WTRU receive beam corresponding to the WTRU transmit beam used for the RACH preamble transmission. On a condition that P>λP, the WTRU may retransmit the RACH preamble after a retransmission interval, on resources associated with a second RA-RNTI value. The WTRU may be configured for monitoring the PDCCH common search space with the first RA-RNTI and the second RA-RNTI, for respective RAR window intervals.

Joint communication and sensing aided random access channel

Systems, methods and instrumentalities for a distributed detect and avoid (DM) framework for unmanned vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The systems, methods and instrumentalities may include a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) associated with a vehicle. The WTRU may include a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to store a trajectory of the vehicle and to send a message indicative of a conflict between the trajectory of the vehicle and a trajectory of another vehicle. The processor may be configured to receive a message from the other vehicle that is indicative of one or more conflicts and to determine a list that includes the vehicle(s) associated with the one or more conflicts. The processor may be configured to determine a resolution that addresses the conflict(s) associated with the list.

Distributed detect and avoid for unmanned vehicles

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 are described for supporting a two-stage device-to-device (D2D) discovery using a D2D interworking function (IWF). A D2D IWF component may be configured to perform mapping between an application running on an application server and a third generation partnership project (3GPP) network, and provide a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow discovery to be provided as a service to D2D applications. An application identifier may be mapped to a 3GPP identifier. Further, a method and apparatus are described for performing client-server discovery. A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured for a listen-only operation, and a second WTRU may be configured to transmit beacons. The first and second WTRUs may perform a radio access network (RAN) discovery procedure at an access stratum (AS) layer. A method and apparatus for performing charging for D2D service using a D2D IWF are also described.

Method and apparatus for supporting proximity discovery procedures

Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for method for energy harvesting (EH) performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are provided. A method may include any of receiving information indicating EH receiver configuration information (EHRCI) including information indicating an EH priority of the WTRU; and on condition that the EH priority of the WTRU indicates that the WTRU is permitted to perform EH, performing the EH on signaling received via the EH receiver according to the EHRCI.

Methods, apparatus, and systems for operational procedures supporting a zero-energy air-interface

A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include receiving a configuration message including timing information for monitoring at least a subset of a plurality of beams to receive a set of synchronization signals and receiving the set of synchronization signals based on the timing information. The received set of synchronization signals include a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal. The method may include receiving a reference signal along with a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission. The reference signal comprises a sequence that is derived from an index associated with one of the at least the subset of beams and associated with the received set of synchronization signals. The method may include transmitting a random access channel (RACH) transmission. The RACH transmission includes a preamble sequence corresponding to the one of the subset of the plurality of beams.

Method and apparatus for initial cell search and selection

An Evanescent Cell (EC) refers to a WTRU-centric cell exploiting highly directional transmissions. An EC may comprise one or more beams from one or more BSs/gNBs/TRPs that may be operated by the same or different operators. An EC may be created utilizing knowledge of radio planning having detected the presence of one or more WTRU. A Beam-Group (BG) refers to a group of beams associated with an EC. All beams associated with an EC may be categorized into multiple BGs. Each BG may be made up of one or more beams from multiple BSs/gNBs/TRPs. Multiple BGs within an EC may be enabled to ease the burden of cell management. In one or more embodiments, there may be systems, procedures, and/or devices for EC/BG detection, deactivation, activation, selection, reselection, and augmentation. Further, there may be one or more embodiments for hierarchical system information acquisition as they relate to ECs/BGs.

Idle/inactive mode operations in highly directional UE-centric systems

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Ravikumar V Pragada