Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Beijing Samsung Telecom R&d Center

Soeng-Hun Kim

Gert Jan Van Lieshout

Kyeong-In Jeong

Himke Van Der Velde

Ju-Ho Lee

Sung-Ho Choi

Kook-Heui Lee

Sang-Bum Kim

Sudhir Kumar Baghel

Joon-Young Cho

Yong-Jun Kwak

Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale

Jaehyuk Jang

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Youn-Hyoung Heo

Joon-Goo Park

No-Jun Kwak

Woo-Seong Kim

Il Su Han

Himke Vander Velde

Anil Agiwal

Jung-Soo Jung

Chunying Sun

Seung-Ri Jin

Aris Papasakellariou

Jin-Kyu Han

Donghan Kim

Kyeong In Jeong

Young-Bum Kim

Sang Bum Kim

Youn-Sun Kim

Jae Hyuk Jang

Xiaoqiang Li

Hyoung-Ju Ji

Song-Yean Cho

Hyo-Jin Lee

Chae-Man Lim

O-Sok Song

Sang-Min Ro

Young-Woo Kwak

Jung Soo Jung

Hoon-Dong Noh

Sang-Soo Jeong

Jin-Weon Chang

Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

Gert-Jan Van Lieshout

Cheol-Kyu Shin

Han-Il Yu

Himke Van Dervelde

Detao Li

Jae-Hyuk Jang

Kook-Heul Lee

Himke Van Der Valde

Shanpeng Xiao

An apparatus and a method are provided for operating HARQ in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a number of HARQ processes of a semi-persistent resource allocation and semi-persistent resource allocation interval information for a first transmission; receiving data in the first transmission at a subframe based on the semi-persistent resource allocation interval information; calculating a HARQ process IDentifier (ID) using the number of HARQ processes of the semi-persistent resource allocation, the semi-persistent resource allocation interval information, and time information; receiving control information including the HARQ process ID on an L1 control channel; receiving data in a retransmission based on the control information including the HARQ process ID; combining the data received in the first transmission and the data received in the retransmission; and decoding the combined data.

Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packets in a mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic repeat request

A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that a first message to perform a handover from a first base station to a second base station is received, from the first base station, performing a medium access control (MAC) reset, wherein performing the MAC reset includes stopping a power headroom report (PHR) periodic timer; receiving, from the second base station, first information related to a first uplink resource; in case that the first uplink resource is first allocated for a new transmission since the MAC reset is performed, starting the stopped PHR periodic timer; transmitting, to the second base station, a second message to confirm the handover using the first uplink resource; triggering a PHR, in case that the started PHR periodic timer expires; receiving, from the second base station, second information related to a second uplink resource; and transmitting, to the second base station, the triggered PHR using the second uplink resource.

Method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom report of a UE in a wireless communication system

Methods and apparatuses are provided in which a user equipment (UE) receives a system information block (SIB) from a network. The UE identifies at least one downlink (DL) period based on a first uplink (UL)/DL configuration included in the SIB. The UE monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during the at least one DL period using a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation. The UE obtains downlink control information (DCI) for indicating at least one second UL/DL configuration as a format for one or more time intervals from the monitored PDCCH. The UE determines the format for the one or more time intervals based on the obtained DCI. The monitoring of the PDCCH includes monitoring the PDCCH in an active time of a DRX cycle. The active time includes a time when the UE performs continuous reception.

Method and apparatus for determining TDD UL-DL configuration applicable for radio frames

Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method by which a terminal transmits a buffer status report (BSR) in a communication system, including allocating an uplink resource from a base station; comparing the number of padding bits with a value obtained by summing the size of the BSR and the size of a sub-header of the BSR; and transmitting, to the base station according to the comparison result, the BSR including information indicating the presence or absence of a field representing a buffer size for at least one logical channel group (LCG).

Method and device for transmitting and receiving data in wireless communication system

Method for radio communication with base station, by user equipment (UE), apparatus in UE for radio communication with base station, a method for radio communication with a UE by a base station, and an apparatus in a base station for radio communication with a UE are provided. The method for radio communication with a base station, by a UE, includes determining whether to start a first timer based on a predetermined condition, in response to a buffer status reporting triggered; starting the first timer in response to the predetermined condition being satisfied; in response to an uplink resource for a buffer status report transmission being available before the first timer expires, transmitting an uplink packet including a buffer status report using the available uplink resource; and in response to no uplink resource for the buffer status report transmission being available and the first timer expiring, transmitting a scheduling request to the base station.

Method and apparatus for buffer status report in mobile communication system

Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving system information (SI). A method for receiving SI by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system includes receiving, by the UE, the SI including first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) without second partial bits of the SFN on a broadcast channel (BCH) at a first subframe of a radio frame, the first partial bits of the SFN having the same value during a predetermined N successive radio frames of a BCH transmission period, where N is a positive integer; and acquiring, by the UE, the second partial bits of the SFN for the radio frame, the second partial bits of the SFN having different values in different radio frames of the predetermined N successive radio frames of the BCH transmission period.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information in a mobile communication system

A method and apparatus are provided for controlling an active state in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information related to a starting position of an active state and information related to a length of a first timer; deriving the starting position of the active state based on the information related to the starting position; starting the first timer set to the length of the first timer and entering the active state at the derived starting position; terminating the active state if control data indicating a transmission of user data is not received until the first timer expires; extending a period of the active state if the control data is received before the first timer expires; and terminating the active state based on a control signal indicating a termination of the active state.

Method and apparatus for discontinuous reception of connected terminal in a mobile communication system

Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method by which a terminal transmits a buffer status report (BSR) in a communication system, comprising the steps of: allocating an uplink resource from a base station; comparing the number of padding bits with a value obtained by summing the size of the BSR and the size of a sub-header of the BSR; and transmitting, to the base station according to the comparison result, the BSR including information indicating the presence or absence of a field representing a buffer size for at least one logical channel group (LCG).

Methods and apparatuses are provided for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system. A UE receives a system information block (SIB) from a base station. The UE obtains a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration from the SIB. The UE identifies DL subframes in a radio frame. The UE monitors the PDCCH transmitted from the base station on a DL subframe included in an on duration period of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The UE obtains information about a second TDD UL/DL configuration from the monitored PDCCH. The UE applies the second TDD UL/DL configuration to the radio frame. The DL subframe corresponds to a predetermined subframe number in the radio frame. The on duration period represents a period corresponding to a predetermined number of subframes from a subframe where the DRX cycle starts, and the on duration period is repeated periodically.

A method is provided for performing a random access procedure in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a random access response message from a Base Station (BS); transmitting a message including a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) to the BS, if the C-RNTI exists; and determining that a contention for the random access procedure is resolved successfully, when User Equipment (UE)-specific control information addressable by the C-RNTI is received from the BS.

Method and apparatus for detecting contention during random access procedure in a mobile communication system

Method for radio communication with base station, by user equipment (UE), apparatus in UE for radio communication with base station, a method for radio communication with a UE by a base station, and an apparatus in a base station for radio communication with a UE are provided. The method for radio communication with a base station, by a UE, includes identifying whether an uplink resource allocated for data transmission to the base station is available, in response to a buffer status report for transmission to the base station being triggered; transmitting an uplink packet including the buffer status report using the available uplink resource, in response to the uplink resource being available; and transmitting a scheduling request to the base station, in response to the UE not having an available uplink resource and a first timer being expired, wherein the first timer starts when the buffer status report is triggered.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method for performing a measurement procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting a dual connectivity (DC) is provided. The method includes receiving control information including measurement gap configuration information indicating gap configuration for at least one operating frequency band to which a measurement gap is applied; obtaining a system frame number (SFN) of a serving cell and a sub-frame of the serving cell based on the measurement gap configuration information; determining a first sub-frame of the measurement gap based on the SFN and the sub-frame; and performing a measurement on at least one serving cell including the serving cell at the first sub-frame.

Method and apparatus for measuring serving and neighboring cells

A method and an apparatus are provided for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE receives a system information block (SIB) from a network. The UE identifies at least one downlink (DL) period based on a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/DL configuration included in the SIB; monitoring, by the UE, the PDCCH during the at least one DL period using a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation. The UE obtains information about at least one second TDD UL/DL configuration for one or more time intervals from the monitored PDCCH. The monitoring of the PDCCH comprises monitoring the PDCCH in an active time of a DRX cycle. The active time includes a time when the UE performs continuous reception.

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Soeng-Hun Kim