Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Idac Holdings, Inc.

Interdigital Technology Corporation

Drnc Holdings, Inc.

Integrated Patent Holdings, Inc.

Ravikumar V Pragada

Tao Deng

Philip J Pietraski

Yugeswar Deenoo

Mihaela C Beluri

Anantharaman Balasubramanian

Samian Kaur

Arnab Roy

Tanbir Haque

Janet A Stern-Berkowitz

Gregory S Sternberg

Hussain Elkotby

Moon-il Lee

Balaji B Raghothaman

Onur Sahin

Patrick Cabrol

Nagi Jayaraman Mahalingam

Kiran K Vanganuru

Erdem Bala

Zhuorong Deng

Kyle Jung-Lin Pan

Alexander Reznik

Carl Wang

Eldad M Zeira

Rui Yang

Alpaslan Demir

Douglas R Castor

Pascal M Adjakple

Saad Ahmad

Guanzhou Wang

Marian Rudolf

Steven Ferrante

Stephen E Terry

Kai Li

Michael F Starsinic

Ulises Olvera-Hernandez

Juan Carlos Zuniga

Sanjay Goyal

Liangping Ma

Yingxue K Li

Gregg Arthur Charlton

William E Lawton

Kevin T Wanuga

Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni

Joseph S Levy

Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar

Alphan Sahin

Frank La Sita

John V Thommana

Faris Alfarhan

Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

Muhammad U Fazili

Bharath Viswanathan

Mahmoud Abdelgelil

Daniel R Cohen

Diana Pani

Ghyslain Pelletier

Benoit Pelletier

Joseph M Murray

Prabhakar Chitrapu

Vincent Roy

Yogendra C Shah

Monisha Ghosh

Angelo A Cuffaro

Vinod Kumar Choyi

Michelle Perras

John L Tomici

Alan Gerald Carlton

Samir Ferdi

Jun Xu

Brian Gregory Kiernan

Xavier De Foy

Gwenael Poitau

Dirk Trossen

Sana Sfar

Hongsan Sheng

Michel Roy

Dylan James Watts

Kandarp Shah

William Francoeur

Ojas Kanhere

Matthew G Puzio

Mohamed Abou El Seoud

Manish Kumar

Loran Jatunov

Mohammad Sarim

Matthew Dechering

Mohammadreza Radmanesh

Ayaskant Rath

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

Methods and apparatuses are described herein for providing Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) techniques for a non-terrestrial network. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may transmit, to a satellite base station (BS), uplink (UL) feedback that includes configuration information for redundancy versions (RVs) and cross redundancy versions (cRVs). The WTRU may receive one or more first RVs associated with a first transport block (TB). The WTRU may receive one or more second RVs associated with a second TB and at least one cross redundancy version (cRV) associated with the first TB and second TB. The cRV may include parity bits generated from both the first TB and second TB. If at least one of the first TB or the second TB is unsuccessfully decoded, the WTRU may decode the first TB and second TB jointly based on the at least one cRV.

Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) techniques for non-terrestrial networks

Methods and apparatus are described. A method, implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes monitoring a first control channel search space (SS) associated with a first normal beam set comprising a first beam set. The WTRU initiates extended monitoring and monitors, subsequent to a trigger based on a measurement by the WTRU, a control channel SS associated with an extended beam set comprising the first beam set and one or more additional beam sets. The WTRU determines a second beam set from the extended beam set. The determination is based on a received control channel beam switch command or based on a control channel SS in which a beam switch command is received. The WTRU monitors a second control channel SS associated with a second normal beam set comprising the determined second beam set.

Methods and apparatus for beam control in beamformed systems

Methods and apparatuses for receive (Rx) beam selection are described herein. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive, from a base station (BS), configuration information for joint communication and sensing (JCS) reference signals. The configuration information may include resources for reference signal transmission and resources for measurement reporting. The WTRU may be further configured to receive, from the BS, an indication to activate a subset of the resources for JCS reference signal transmission. The WTRU may be further configured to transmit, a plurality of JCS reference signals using the activated subset of resources for reference signal transmission. The WTRU may be further configured to measure, via a plurality of Rx beams, a backscatter power associated with each of the transmitted plurality of JCS reference signals. The WTRU may be further configured to calculate beam blockage statistics based on the measured backscatter power.

Joint communication and sensing aided beam management for NR

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Ravikumar V Pragada