Apple Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Intel Corporation

Salesforce.com, Inc.

Yongjun Kwak

Gang Xiong

Salvatore Talarico

Lopamudra Kundu

Hung Dinh Ly

Jing Lei

Yuchul Kim

Hwan Joon Kwon

Dae Won Lee

Bishwarup Mondal

Huilin Xu

Debdeep Chatterjee

Yingyang Li

Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov

Jose Armando Oviedo

Hong He

Seyedkianoush Hosseini

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Daewon Lee

Yushu Zhang

Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli

Seunghee Han

Seau Sian Lim

Anthony Lee

Sergey D Sosnin

Wanshi Chen

Tingfang Ji

Ahmed Attia Abotabl

Carlos Horacio Aldana

Muhammad Nazmul Islam

Linhai He

Youn Hyoung Heo

Toufiqul Islam

Prerana Rane

Peter S Gaal

Yan Zhou

Sergey Panteleev

Prashant Sharma

Mostafa Khoshnevisan

Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar

Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev

Honglei Miao

Joonyoung Cho

Pinar Sen

Seung Hee Han

Jiwoo Kim

Juan Montojo

Gavin Bernard Horn

Wooseok Nam

Yi Huang

Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov

Yang Tang

Le Liu

Jay Kumar Sundararajan

Yujian Zhang

Aziz Gholmieh

Miguel Griot

Rui Huang

Bharat Shrestha

Murali Narasimha

Jeongho Jeon

Prashanth Haridas Hande

Mikhail S Shilov

Yeliz Tokgoz

Andrey Chervyakov

Wei Yang

Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr

Dmitry Belov

Ansab Ali

Jie Zhu

Jan M Zaleski

Darshil Vipul Vora

Sergey Sosnin

Suenghee Han

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to support a restricted bandwidth for data signaling. The UE may receive an indication of a bandwidth part for control signaling and an indication of a set of frequency domain resources for the data signaling. The set of frequency domain resources may correspond to a subset of the bandwidth part in accordance with the restricted bandwidth. The UE may communicate the control signaling over the bandwidth part and data signaling over the set of frequency domain resources. In some cases, the bandwidth restriction may correspond to a bandwidth size for the set of frequency domain resources or a number of resource blocks in the set of frequency domain resources.

Frequency resource allocation for reduced capability devices

Systems and methods of increasing paging opportunities when the unlicensed band is used are described. The gNB sends an RRC message that indicates multiple monitoring occasions in a paging occasion of a paging frame. The UE monitors a monitoring occasion of a PO to determine whether a PDCCH with a P-RNTI has been received in an unlicensed band. If such a PDCCH is received, the UE decodes PD SCH information in the PDCCH to determine whether the P-RNTI is a P-RNTI of the UE. If so, the UE avoids monitoring subsequent monitoring occasions of the PO. If the PDCCH does not contain a P-RNTI, the UE continues to monitor other monitoring occasions within the PO.

UE paging in NR unlicensed spectrum

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) configuration for an uplink message that may indicate for the UE to refrain from including DMRS in at least a first portion of the uplink message based on the DMRS configuration. The UE may encode the uplink message without the DMRS in at least the first portion of the uplink message in accordance with the DMRS configuration. The UE may transmit the uplink message based on encoding the uplink message, and a network entity may receive and decode the uplink message. In some examples, the network entity may receive signaling that includes a set of uplink messages from different UEs. As such, the network entity may decode each, using a respective Reed-Muller (RM) code in accordance with a multi-user decoding algorithm.

Demodulation reference signal configuration for uplink messages

Systems and methods of in-sync/out-of-sync (IS/OOS) determination in the unlicensed band are described. Reference signals are measured on the unlicensed band. If the UE determines that at least one of the reference signals is missing, the IS/OOS condition is evaluated on that basis. If the missing signals are ignored when determining the IS/OOS condition, and the IS/OOS condition is unable to evaluated, the L1 sends an indication to the RRC layer. If the number of indications exceeds a threshold, the UE performs re-establishment or sends a report to the base station for adjustment of the reference signal resources. If the missing signals are counted, the missing signals are weighted based on proximity to the noise floor or a number of adjacent signals that are missing.

Radio link monitoring and failure for new radio-unlicensed operation

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message that indicates a first initial uplink bandwidth part for use by the UE in communications with a network entity, the message also indicating a plurality of random access occasions, at least one of the plurality of random access occasions being in frequency resources that are outside of the first initial uplink bandwidth part. The UE may select a random access occasion of the plurality of random access occasions for transmission of a random access preamble from the UE to the network entity. The UE may transmit, as part of a random access procedure, the random access preamble within the random access occasion.

Bandwidth part configuration for reduced capability devices

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing Synchronization Single Block (SSB) transmission using a number of SSB beams. An embodiment operates by determining a SSB index for a SSB based on a candidate position in a set of candidate positions and the number of SSB beams. The embodiment determines a shift value for the SSB index based on the candidate position and the number of SSB beams. The embodiment determines a frame timing for the SSB based the SSB index and the shift value for the SSB index. The embodiment then transmits, by radio front end circuitry, the SSB to a user equipment (UE) based on the frame timing for the SSB.

Discovery reference signal design for quasi co- location and frame timing information in new radio user equipment

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate power ramping of PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel), for example, in connection with change of best gNB (next generation Node B) Tx (Transmit) beam and/or dynamic beam switching for control and/or data channels. Power ramping techniques discussed herein can comprise techniques for determining at least one of a power ramping counter or power offset for PRACH in connection with a change in best DL (Downlink) Tx (Transmit) beam. Dynamic beam switching techniques discussed herein can comprise employing DCI comprising at least one beam indication field indicating a beam index of a new beam of a BPL (Beam Pair Link) for at least one of a data channel or a control SS (Search Space).

PRACH (physical random access channel) ramping and dynamic beam switching of control and data transmissions

Methods, systems, and storage media are described for random access procedures triggered based on physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) orders. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Random access procedures based on physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) orders

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A synchronization signal block (SSB) may be dynamically scheduled within an operating bandwidth of a user equipment (UE), where the operating bandwidth of the UE is outside of a frequency resource in which a cell defining SSB (CD-SSB) is scheduled. For example, a UE may operate in a reduced capability mode or an enhanced reduced capability mode where the UE may operate in a narrower bandwidth than the serving cell bandwidth. Control signaling may dynamically configure an SSB for the UE within the operating bandwidth of the UE. The UE may monitor for the non-cell defining SSB (NCD-SSB) and skip monitoring for the CD-SSB based on the dynamically configured NCD-SSB. For example, a reduced capability UE or an enhanced reduced capability UE may monitor for the NCD-SSB without performing RF retuning between receiving the control signaling and monitoring for the NCD-SSB.

Techniques for configuring bandwidth parts and synchronization signal blocks

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can operate on an unlicensed spectrum. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) to detect transmissions within the unlicensed spectrum. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transmit, in response to the unlicensed spectrum being clear of transmissions, one or more first symbols within an uplink (UL) burst portion of a frame structure. The frame structure can include a downlink (DL) burst portion and the UL burst portion separated by gap. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can receive one or more second symbols within the DL burst portion.

And apparatus for the FBE frame work for NR systems operating on unlicensed spectrum

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) burst set that includes a plurality of SSBs, a majority of the SSBs in the SSB burst set having an SSB symbol and a corresponding physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbol that is located a fixed number of symbols from the SSB symbol. The UE may obtain a location of the PBCH symbol based at least in part on the fixed number of symbols. Numerous other aspects are described.

Physical broadcast channel and synchronization signal block signaling

Techniques are provided for determining and processing uplink listen before talk (LBT) failures, including the determination of a consistent and systematic LBT failure associated with uplink transmissions in new radio (NR) operating over unlicensed spectrum. For example, a user equipment (UE) identifies a plurality of transmission occasions to be performed by the UE over the unlicensed spectrum. The UE further performs a plurality of listen before talk (LBT) procedures associated with respective ones of the plurality of transmission occasions to be performed by the UE, and tracks a number of LBT failures during the performance of the plurality of LBT procedures, wherein a LBT failure occurs due to a channel used for the associated LBT procedure being busy or when an LBT backoff is still running from a previous LBT failure. The UE further implements a recovery procedure in response to the LBT failures exceeding a predetermined threshold within a predetermined time period.

Apparatus and method of handling uplink listen before talk (LBT) failures for new radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Base stations may reduce energy consumption by minimizing the use of periodic signals such as the system information block one (SIB1), which a user equipment (UE) may use to perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a base station. A UE may transmit a wake-up signal to the base station requesting an SIB1. The base station may transmit a synchronization signal block (SSB) that indicates that the base station is not transmitting an SIB1, and the UE may transmit the cell wake-up signal in response. A base station may refrain from periodically transmitting SSBs. A UE may determine that it is within range of a base station and that it has not received an SSB. The UE may transmit a wake-up signal to the base station, and the base station may transmit an SSB and an SIB1 to the UE.

Signaling to wake up a cell

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may monitor synchronization signal resources, each synchronization signal resources associated with a beam, and may select a preferred beam based on the monitoring. The UE may transmit an uplink random access message (e.g., messageof a four-step random access message, message A of a two-step random access procedure, or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message requesting retransmission of a random access message) including beam information (e.g., one or more beam indices, channel quality information, or channel state information) to a base station. In response, the base station may transmit a downlink random access message using a different beam (e.g., a new preferred beam). The UE may establish a connection with the base station based on the completed random access procedure.

Beam changes during random access procedures

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for user equipment (UE) indication of uplink scheduling information to a base station. The uplink scheduling information may provide information on a periodic traffic pattern, such as for periodic extended reality (XR) data flows. The uplink scheduling information may provide uplink assistance information (UAI) to a base station to assist the base station with providing uplink resources that efficiently serve an XR session. The UAI may indicate one or more of a periodicity of uplink traffic, an offset between uplink traffic and a packet arrival, a data size for uplink traffic for each time period associated with the XR session, a request to enable uplink transmission skipping, or any combinations thereof. A base station may provide one or more dynamic grants, configured grants, or proactive grants to a UE based on the uplink scheduling information.

UE indication of uplink scheduling parameters in wireless communications

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Yongjun Kwak