Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Taewoo Lee

Tomoki Yoshimura

Shoichi Suzuki

Wataru Ouchi

Toshizo Nogami

Huifa Lin

Liqing Liu

Daiichiro Nakashima

Wataru Ohuchi

Shouichi Suzuki

Hui-Fa Lin

Daiichiroh Nakashima

A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station in a serving cell is described. The method may comprise acquiring first radio resource control (RRC) information and second RRC information. The first RRC information may indicate one or more slot format combinations. The second RRC information may indicate periodic channel state information (CSI) reporting. The method may also comprise performing a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring if the first RRC information is provided. The first PDCCH monitoring may be monitoring of a first PDCCH with a first downlink control information (DCI) format. The method may further comprise performing the periodic CSI reporting on a physical uplink control channel according to the third RRC information. If the first RRC information is provided and if the first DCI format providing a slot format for a slot is not detected, a transmission of the PUCCH may be performed for a set of symbols of the slot, subject to a channel access procedure.

User equipments, base stations, and methods

A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including DCI triggering a Type-3 HARQ-ACK codebook, and a transmitter configured to transmit a PUCCH including the Type-3 HARQ-ACK codebook triggered. A slot in which the PUCCH is transmitted is provided based on K1 obtained based on a PDSCH-to-HARQ_feedback timing indicator field included in the DCI. In a case that the DCI schedules a PDSCH, the PUCCH is transmitted the K1 slots after a slot in which the PDSCH is received. In a case that the DCI does not schedule a PDSCH, the PDCCH is transmitted in a slot after slots corresponding to the K1 from a slot in which the PDCCH is received.

Terminal apparatus and communication method

Provided are a channel generation unit configured to generate a time domain signal of a PUCCH mapped from an X-th OFDM symbol to an (X+L)-th OFDM symbol in a slot, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUCCH. In a case that the time domain signal of the X-th OFDM symbol is generated based at least on contents of resource elements included in an (X+1)-th OFDM symbol, a set of OFDM symbols to which a DMRS of the PUCCH is mapped is given based at least on an assumption that the number of OFDM symbols of the PUCCH is L.

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method

Methods for a terminal apparatus are disclosed, comprising: receiving a transmission band configuration, wherein the transmission band configuration is provided by an initial downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) in case that at least one predetermined condition is satisfied, the transmission band configuration is provided by a dedicated radio resource control (RRC) message in case that the at least one predetermined condition is not satisfied, the predetermined condition includes a dedicated RRC parameter is not provided, the terminal apparatus is in idle mode, the terminal apparatus performs an initial connection, the terminal apparatus does not support at least one of one or more carrier bands based on a parameter in a common RRC message, the terminal apparatus supports a band of the initial DL BWP, and the terminal apparatus supports a band of a control resource set with an index equals to zero.

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise higher layer processing circuitry configured to acquire first radio resource control (RRC) information and second RRC information. The first RRC information may indicate a search space set for a detection of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with downlink control information (DCI) format 2_0. The DCI format 2_0 may include a field for indicating a channel occupancy duration. The second information may configure a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS). The UE may also comprise receiving circuitry configured to monitor the PDCCH with the DCI format 2_0. If a set of symbol(s) is indicated as not being within the channel occupancy duration by a value of the field in the DCI format 2_0, the PDCCH may be monitored on the set of symbol(s) and the CSI-RS may not be received on the set of symbol(s).

A terminal apparatus comprises a reception unit and a higher layer processing unit. When a carrier is set in an unlicensed band, the reception unit is configured to detect a first PDCCH in a first type 0 PDCCH common search space set and receive a first PDSCH scheduled by the first PDCCH. When the carrier is not set in the unlicensed band, the reception unit is configured to detect a second PDCCH in a second type 0 PDCCH common search space set and receive a second PDSCH scheduled by the second PDCCH. A higher layer processing unit is configured to manage common RRC signaling included in the first PDSCH or the second PDSCH. A time domain resource configuration of the first PDSCH is a first configuration, and a time domain resource configuration of the second PDSCH is a second configuration different from the first configuration.

The DCI format at least indicates a set of interlaces if the DCI format indicates a set of RB-sets, resource blocks for the PUSCH are given based on an intersection of the set of the interlaces and the set of the RB-sets, and if the DCI format doesn't indicate the set of the RB-sets, the resource blocks for the PUSCH are given based on an intersection of the set of the interlaces and a pre-determined set of RB-sets where the pre-determined set includes one RB-set which corresponds to one downlink RB set in which the DCI format is received.

Terminal devices, base station devices, and communication methods

A UE which communicates with a base station is described. The UE may comprise receiving circuitry configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format; transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH subject to a channel access procedure, a starting position of initial symbol for PUSCH being adjusted by x; wherein the DCI format includes a 4-bit information field, the 4-bit information is characterized by at least one or more of following values.

A communication method used for a terminal device is provided. The communication method comprises triggering transmission of a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook; and when transmission of a second HARQ-ACK codebook is triggered before the first HARQ-ACK codebook has been transmitted, canceling the transmission of the first HARQ-ACK codebook; and transmitting the second HARQ-ACK codebook.

Method and apparatus for performing HARQ-ACK transmission

A terminal apparatus transmits a PUCCH in a certain slot, and receives multiple DCI formats on a set of PDCCH monitoring occasions corresponding to the certain slot. In a case that multiple PUCCHs exist in the certain slot and that the multiple PUCCHs include a first PUCCH including a first type HARQ-ACK codebook and a second PUCCH including a second type HARQ-ACK codebook, the second PUCCH is not transmitted.

To perform communication efficiently. Provided are a receiver configured to receive a random access preamble and a transmitter configured to transmit one or multiple medium access control random access responses (MAC RARs) corresponding to the random access preamble. The transmitter sets, in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in a new radio access technology (NR) cell, a timing advance command (TAC) field included in the MAC RAR to have a first size and an uplink (UL) grant to have a second size, and sets. in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in an NR-unlicensed (NR-U) cell, a size of the TAC field included in the MAC RAR to be smaller than the first size and a size of the UL grant to be greater than the second size.

Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and method for a random access procedure in wireless communication

The present invention can perform communication efficiently. In a case that (1) the terminal apparatus is configured to monitor a first PDCCH candidate in a CSS and a second PDCCH candidate in a USS according to a DCI format with a C-RNTI, (2) a set of resource elements constituting the first PDCCH candidate is the same as a set of resource elements constituting the second PDCCH candidate, (3) a higher layer parameter is not set, and/or (4) the size of the DCI format corresponding to the first PDCCH candidate is the same as the size of the DCI format corresponding to the second PDCCH candidate, a terminal apparatus regards that a PDCCH with the DCI format is transmitted or received in the first PDCCH candidate when the PDCCH with the DCI format is received in the second PDCCH candidate.

Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus and communication method

A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station is described. The method may comprise acquiring radio resource control (RRC) configuration information. The RRC configuration information may indicate a configuration of downlink control (DCI) format 2_0. The method may also comprise monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with the DCI format 2_0. The DCI format 2_0 may include a first information field. The first information field may indicate a remaining channel occupancy duration. The remaining channel occupancy duration may be expressed as the number of OFDM symbol(s) starting from a slot where the DCI format 2_0 is detected.

A terminal apparatus receives a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and transmits HARQ-ACK information in a slot n. In a case that a higher layer parameter is given, for a PDSCH group g, a monitoring occasion for PDCCH corresponding to a DCI format satisfying a condition is included in a set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n. Based at least on the set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n, the HARQ-ACK information is generated. The condition includes the following: condition 1 is that the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format is triggered to be transmitted in the lot n, and condition 2 is that the PDSCH group g is indicated by a PGI field included in the DCI format.

A method for a base station which communicates with a user equipment (UE) in a bandwidth including a plurality of channel access sub-bands in a serving cell is described. The method may comprise sensing each of the plurality of the channel access sub-bands. The method may also comprise transmitting downlink signal after sensing. A counter and a contention window size may be managed per sub-band for channel access.

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