Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Wataru Ouchi

Shoichi Suzuki

Tomoki Yoshimura

Kimihiko Imamura

Tatsushi Aiba

Toshizo Nogami

Liqing Liu

Daiichiro Nakashima

Taewoo Lee

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Takashi Hayashi

Naoki Kusashima

Huifa Lin

Kazunari Yokomakura

Alvaro Ruiz Delgado

Katsunari Uemura

Yasuyuki Kato

Yosuke Akimoto

Hiroki Takahashi

Takahisa Fukui

Ryota Morimoto

Shohei Yamada

Hui-Fa Lin

Hidekazu Tsuboi

Toshizoh Nogami

Lei Huang

The terminal device determines frequency domain resources for the PUCCH based on an intersection of resource blocks corresponding to the first interlace(s) and resource blocks in a frequency portion among first frequency portions which is defined by the guard bands, and the terminal device determines frequency domain resources for the PUSCH based on an intersection of resource blocks corresponding to the second interlace(s) and resource blocks in frequency portions among second frequency portions which is given based on the second higher layer parameter, the second frequency portions being within the uplink carrier.

Terminal devices, base station devices, and communication methods

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

A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format indicating transmission of a PUCCH, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUCCH. The number of slots Nis configured by a higher layer parameter NrofSlots, the PUCCH is repeated in the Nslots, a first PRB is configured by a higher layer parameter StartingPRB, a second PRB is configured by a higher layer parameter SecondHopPRB, one hopping pattern is determined based on the DCI format, and whether repetition of the PUCCH in each of the Nslots is allocated at least in the first PRB or at least in the second PRB is determined based on the one hopping pattern.

Terminal device comprising: reception circuitry configured to receive a PDCCH scheduling a first PUSCH and a second PUSCH; and transmission circuitry configured to transmit the first PUSCH and/or the second PUSCH; and a number NPRB1 of PRBs is allocated to the first PUSCH and a number NPRB2 of PRBs which is different from the NPRB1 is allocated to the second PUSCH at least based on a FDRA field included in the PDCCH; wherein a size of a transport block is determined at least based on a baseline number NPRBbaseline of PRBs; and the NPRBbaseline is determined at least based on NPRB1 and NPRB2; and the transport block is included in the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH.

User equipments, base stations, and methods

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 user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire at least a first RRC parameter for indicating txConfig and a second RRC parameter for indicating whether or not a transform precoding indicator field is included in a DCI format, reception circuitry configured to receive the DCI format for scheduling of a PUSCH and transmission circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH.

User equipment, base station and method

Terminal device receives a first PDCCH triggering Type-3 HARQ-ACK codebook and not scheduling a PDSCH; transmits a PUCCH indicated by the PDCCH; wherein in a case that the PDCCH does not indicate a SPS release, a processing time from the PDCCH to the PUCCH is set to a first value, and in a case that the PDCCH indicates a SPS release, the processing time is set to a second value that is larger than the first value.

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.

A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a DCI format, a first higher layer parameter determines at least a periodicity of a first SPS PDSCH, a second higher layer parameter determines at least a periodicity of a second SPS PDSCH, the first SPS PDSCH is deactivated by the DCI format, the second SPS PDSCH is activated by the DCI format, the periodicity of the first SPS PDSCH is different from the periodicity of the second SPS PDSCH, and the receiver receives the second SPS PDSCH based on the second higher layer parameter.

Terminal apparatus and base station apparatus

Terminal device receives a SS/PBCH block with an odd index and a PDCCH in a Type0-PDCCH CSS set. A predefined table provides configurations for the Type0-PDCCH CSS set. The first symbol index is Nin a first row, and the first symbol index is N+Nin a second row. The first row and the second row are different rows in the predefined table.

Terminal devices and base station devices

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.

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.

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Wataru Ouchi