Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Kikusui Seisakusho Ltd.

Otsuka Pharamceutical Co. Ltd.

Ostuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Miics & Partners Japan Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Shohei Yamada

Hidekazu Tsuboi

Yasuyuki Kato

Tatsushi Aiba

Katsunari Uemura

Hiroki Takahashi

Zhanping Yin

Shoichi Suzuki

Daiichiro Nakashima

Kazunari Yokomakura

Takako Hori

John Michael Kowalski

Renmao Liu

Hiroshi Katsuragawa

Liqing Liu

Ahmad Khoshnevis

Wahoh Oh

Chongming Zhang

Waho Oh

Toshizo Nogami

Keiichi Hibi

Masayuki Hoshino

Michiaki Tominaga

Satoshi Aoki

Naoto Utsumi

Kaoru Abe

Koichi Shinhama

Junichi Kawasaki

Yoshihiro Nishioka

Takuji Bando

Youichi Taniguchi

Kiyoshi Fujimoto

Tsutomu Fujimura

Makoto Ishigami

Tsuyoshi Yabuuchi

Noriyuki Kobayashi

Masanori Takahashi

Tomonori Nakagawa

Yoshihiro Ooi

Kenji Tomikawa

Fangying Xiao

Sayantan Choudhury

Yosuke Akimoto

Masafumi Aramoto

Seiji Sato

Kenneth James Park

Jia Sheng

Yasuo Sugawara

Kyosuke Inoue

Takuma Kawano

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Osamu Nakamura

Ningjuan Chang

Wataru Ouchi

Chao Luo

Kimihiko Imamura

Yasuhiro Hamaguchi

Tomoki Yoshimura

Yoko Kuge

Taichi Miyake

Jungo Gotoh

Jungo Goto

Takashi Hayashi

Naoki Kusashima

Alvaro Ruiz Delgado

Manabu Yoshimi

Shinichi Kasahara

Wataru Ohuchi

Yinan Zhao

Akihiro Sawada

Takeshi Hikawa

Hisao Kumai

Tomohiro Kakitani

Yuji Tsujiura

Tetsuro Moriwaki

Fancying Xiao

Zoltan Nemeth

Gabor Jeney

Sujith Chandran

Yohsuke Akimoto

Kazuya Iwasaki

Takako Sanda

Shinshu Unida

Hiroyuki Kagitani

Hidetaka Kishimoto

Zhangping Yin

Kenzo Kashihara

Kazuma Yokoi

Kenta Yamamoto

Takahiro Sonoki

Meng Cheng

Koishi Shinhama

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, MIB providing a first quantity of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) and a first frequency position of a first starting RB for a first CORESET; receiving system information including a second configuration of an initial downlink (DL) BWP, the second configuration providing a second quantity of contiguous RBs, a second frequency position of a second starting RB, and a bitmap indicating frequency domain resources for a second CORESET, each bit of the bitmap corresponds a group of 6 contiguous RBs, with grouping starting from a first RB group in ascending order of RB index; and determining whether the second quantity exceeds a predefined size, wherein in a case the second quantity exceeds the predefined size, determining the first frequency position and the first quantity as a starting position and a bandwidth for an initial DL BWP, and determining a first RB index of the first RB group by using the second frequency position, in a case the second quantity does not exceed the predefined size, determining the second frequency position and the second quantity as the starting position and the bandwidth, and determining the first RB index of the first RB group by using the second frequency position.

User equipment, base station, and communication method

A terminal apparatus for communicating with a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus is responsible to relay communication between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus measures a sidelink Reference Signal Received Power (SL-RSRP) in each of communication with the first terminal apparatus and communication with the second terminal apparatus, and determines whether the two SL-RSRPs are equal to or greater than a threshold and notifies the first terminal apparatus that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus are in proximity in a case that the two SL-RSRPs are determined to be equal to or greater than the threshold, and does not notify the first terminal apparatus that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus are in proximity in a case that the two SL-RSRPs are not determined to be equal to or greater than the threshold.

Terminal apparatus, method, and integrated circuit

A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method detects a failure in a master cell group (MCG) transmission. The method, after determining that the UE is configured with a resume timer, transmits a message to a base station (BS). The message includes information related to the failure. The method also starts the resume timer upon sending the message to the BS, and triggers a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment procedure when the resume timer expires.

Control method of user equipment and user equipment

A method performed by a base station (BS) is provided. The method receives, from a user equipment (UE), a message indicating that the UE is capable of performing a conditional handover. The method then transmits, to the UE, a set of one or more conditional handover configurations. Each conditional handover configuration in the set of conditional handover configurations includes information associated with a corresponding candidate cell, and a handover condition comprising a measurement event based on a signal quality of at least one of a serving cell and the corresponding candidate cell.

Method and device for conditional handover

The present application provides a method executed by a user equipment, comprising: receiving a first system information (SI) message, wherein the first system information (SI) message comprises type information related to a system information block (SIB) and scheduling information of a second system information (SI) message to which the type of the SIB belongs, and the scheduling information comprises a time when the second SI message appears and indication information indicating whether the second SI message is broadcast; and if the indication information indicates that the second SI message is not broadcast, sending an SI request message, and receiving a needed system information block (SIB) according to the scheduling information in the received first SI message. The present application further provides a corresponding user equipment and base station. By means of the present invention, unnecessary overheads are avoided and system resources are saved while meeting the demand of a UE acquiring information.

Method for sending and receiving system message, base station, and user equipment

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, receiving a second RRC parameter related to a control resource set (CORESET) wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set, wherein each PDCCH candidate is repeated in a first total number of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions starting from a first slot, the first slot is determined based on the first RRC parameter.

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter including a first list of one or more CSI trigger states, a second RRC parameter indicating a first total number of bits N_TSfor a first CSI request field of a first DCI format, a third RRC parameter including a second list of one or more CSI trigger states, and a fourth RRC parameter indicating a second total number of bits N_TSfor a second CSI request field of a second DCI format, determining a CSI trigger state in response to a CSI request field of a DCI format, wherein in a first case that a total number of the one or more CSI trigger states within the first list is greater than 21, the processing circuitry is further configured to select one or more of the CSI trigger states out of the first list which are mapped to one or more codepoints of the first CSI request field of the first DCI format, in a second case that a total number of the one or more CSI trigger states within the second list is greater than 2−1, the processing circuitry is further configured to select one or more of the CSI trigger states out of the second list which are mapped to one or more codepoints of the second CSI request field of the second DCI format.

The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment, and user equipment. The method performed by user equipment includes: if a medium access control (MAC) entity is configured with a configured uplink grant and if the configured uplink grant is activated, then determining whether the MAC entity is configured to use the configured uplink grant to transmit a MAC PDU, namely a MAC protocol data unit, obtained for a de-prioritized configured uplink grant; and if the MAC entity is configured to use the configured uplink grant to transmit the MAC PDU, then delivering the configured uplink grant to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity. In this way, the problem involving transmission of a de-prioritized MAC PDU stored in a HARQ process buffer can be solved, thereby improving the communication efficiency and reliability of a wireless communication system.

Method performed by user equipment, and user equipment

A terminal apparatus for communicating with a second terminal apparatus via a first terminal apparatus. The third terminal apparatus receives a sidelink transmission from the second terminal apparatus to the first terminal apparatus, measures a sidelink Reference Signal Received Power (SL-RSRP) from the received sidelink transmission, and determines whether the SL-RSRP is equal to or greater than a threshold, and notifies a higher layer that the second terminal apparatus is in proximity in a case that the SL-RSRP is determined to be equal to or greater than the threshold, and does not notify the higher layer that the second terminal apparatus is in proximity in a case that the SL-RSRP is not determined to be equal to or greater than the threshold.

Provided is a terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including configuration information of an MBS from a base station apparatus, and a processing unit. The configuration information of the MBS includes MBS session information. The MBS session information includes PDU session information. The processing unit, based on initiation of reception of the MBS session by the terminal apparatus, establishes a radio bearer for the MBS, and performs processing of notifying a higher layer of a part or all of the MBS session information.

A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration message including a parameter related to a first configuration from the base station apparatus, and a processing unit configured to perform configuration in accordance with the RRC reconfiguration message received. In a case that a first timer of an RRC protocol expires, a radio link failure of a source primary cell is not detected, and configuration related to Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) handover is performed for the terminal apparatus, the processing unit reconfigures all of state variables configured for a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) in the source primary cell to respective initial values, resumes the SRB suspended in the source primary cell, and transmits an RRC message for notifying the base station apparatus that the DAPS handover has failed.

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method to perform configuration according to radio resource control reconfiguration message

A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration message including a parameter related to first configuration, and a processing unit configured to perform configuration in accordance with the RRC reconfiguration message received. In a case that a first timer of an RRC protocol expires, a radio link failure of a source primary cell is not detected, and configuration related to Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) handover is performed for the terminal apparatus, the processing unit stops all of timers configured for a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) in the source primary cell, resumes the SRB suspended in the source primary cell, and transmits an RRC message for notifying the base station apparatus that the DAPS handover has failed.

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information, wherein the PRACH configuration information includes a list of preamble index ranges and one or more first reference signal received power (RSRP) thresholds, wherein each preamble index range is associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB); selecting, based on a quantity of antenna branch equipped for the UE, one first RSRP threshold from the one or more first RSRP thresholds; selecting, based on one or more synchronization signal (SS)-RSRP values of a set of SSBs and the selected first RSRP threshold, an SSB from the set of SSBs; selecting a preamble index from the first preamble index range associated with the selected SSB; selecting, for the UE, a non-coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a CE mode, at least based on the selected first RSRP threshold.

User equipment apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, to receive a second RRC parameter related to a CORESET wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set in the CORESET, wherein the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a first time duration, the number of consecutive OFDM symbols for each set is determined based on the second RRC parameter, the first time duration is determined based on a RRC parameter included in the first parameter. The first RRC parameter include a third RRC parameter indicating a first symbol for each of the one or more than one sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot, the first duration is determined as one slot, the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot.

A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including a first configuration of a first initial uplink (UL) BWP and a second configuration of a second initial UL BWP wherein the second configuration includes a first RRC parameter, the first RRC parameter configures a cell-specific physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set on the second initial UL BWP, and the cell-specific PUCCH resource set includes one or more PUCCH resources, receiving a PDCCH with a DCI format scheduling a PDSCH, and transmitting, on a PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources, a PUCCH with HARQ-ACK information in response to the PDSCH in the second initial UL BWP, wherein whether the UE uses a first formula or a second formula to calculate a PRB index of the PUCCH resource is determined based on one, more or all of a first frequency domain location of the first initial UL BWP, a first bandwidth of the first initial UL BWP, a second frequency domain location of the second initial UL BWP, and a second bandwidth of the second initial UL BWP, wherein the first formula uses a size of the second initial UL BWP as one of terms of the first formula, and the second formula does not use the size of the second initial UL BWP as one of terms of the second formula.

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Shohei Yamada