Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc

Fg Innovation Company Limited

Zhanping Yin

Shohei Yamada

Toshizo Nogami

John Michael Kowalski

Ahmad Khoshnevis

Tatsushi Aiba

Jia Sheng

Kai Ying

Sayantan Choudhury

Kazunari Yokomakura

Kenneth James Park

Lizhong Zheng

Kimihiko Imamura

Kamel M Shaheen

Atsushi Ishii

Daniel Park

Prem Lal Sood

KyungHo Kim

Tomoki Yoshimura

A repeater node of a telecommunications network wirelessly communicates with a parent node and another node. The repeater node comprises receiver circuitry, processor circuitry, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a frame of information from the parent node. The processor circuitry is configured to include a customized control signal in the frame of information received from the parent node. The customized control signal is customized for the repeater node. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit the frame of information which includes the customized control signal to the other node which may be a wireless terminal.

Network-controlled repeater devices, methods, and networks including same

A network controlled repeater (NCR) is described. The NCR includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a gNodeB (gNB) on a control link for a configured grant (CG), including resource allocation with beam indication, and uplink (UL) forwarding delay information.

Network controlled repeater (NCR) procedures to support type 1 configured grants

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE receives an RRC message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of multiple reduced UE processing capabilities. The UE receives an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission. The UE receives an RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE receives an RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE transmits, to the base station apparatus, a transport block if the first uplink symbol in the PUSCH allocation for a transport block including a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) is no earlier than at symbol X.

User equipments, base stations and signaling for relaxed uplink processing time

A UE is configured to transmit PUCCHs for respective SRs with SR transmission occasions that would overlap with a transmission of a PUCCH with subslot based HARQ-ACK information in a resource using PUCCH format 2, 3, or 4 in a subslot of a slot. The UE includes processing circuitry configured to append SR information bits to subslot based HARQ-ACK information bits using PUCCH format 2, 3, or 4. The UE includes transmitting circuity configured to transmit UCI bits, having the HARQ-ACK and SR information bits, in a PUCCH using the PUCCH resource for the subslot based HARQ-ACK information bits with PUCCH format 2, 3, or 4. A number of the SR information bits is based on a total number of SRs with all priority configurations, or SRs with high priority configurations, whose PUCCH resources overlap with the subslot based HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource in the subslot of the slot.

Priority differentiation of SR transmissions with HARQ-ack codebooks of different service types

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a dropping timeline for low priority channel dropping when a low priority channel collides with a high priority physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK). The processor is also configured to determine a processing delay for the high priority PUCCH when the low priority channel collides with the high PUCCH. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUCCH carrying the HARQ-ACK based on the dropping timeline and the processing delay.

Channel dropping and processing timing requirements for uplink channel collision with different priorities

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a subslot structure for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) transmissions. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUCCH repetition for the URLLC transmissions based on the subslot structure.

Urllc physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with repetitions

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and a PUCCH for uplink control information (UCI) of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) overlap with an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The higher layer processor is also configured to determine multiplexing of both URLLC UCI and eMBB UCI on the eMBB PUSCH, where the URLLC UCI starts immediately after a first set of demodulation reference symbols (DMRS) in the eMBB PUSCH. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform the multiplexing of the URLLC UCI and the eMBB UCI jointly on the eMBB PUSCH.

Multiplexing HARQ-ACK of different service types on a single PUSCH

Examples of user equipments (UEs) are described. A UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first information to configure one or more channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) for tracking and second information to configure time domain correlation related information. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report including the time domain correlation related information. A first parameter trs-Info is included in the first information. A second parameter reportQuantity is not set to 'none'. The time domain correlation related information is measured by the one or more CSI-RS for tracking.

User equipments, base stations and methods for time domain correlation information reporting

Examples of user equipments (UEs) are described. A UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive first information to configure one or more channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) for tracking and second information to configure time domain correlation related information. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a channel state information (CSI) report including the time domain correlation related information. A first parameter trs-Info is included in the first information. A second parameter indicates one of a periodic CSI report, semi-persistent CSI report, and aperiodic CSI report. The time domain correlation related information is measured by the one or more CSI-RS for tracking. The CSI report including the time domain correlation related information is transmitted based on the second parameter.

User equipments, base stations and methods for time domain correlation information signaling

A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a higher layer processor configured to determine that a high-priority channel collides with a low-priority channel. The high-priority channel and the low-priority channel are uplink channels. The higher layer processor is also configured to drop at least a portion of the low-priority uplink channel. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the high-priority channel.

Channel dropping behavior and timing relationships for uplink channel collision with different priorities

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a first subslot for a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions. The PUCCH resource is specified as an enhanced PUCCH format configured to satisfy URLLC PUCCH reliability requirements. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the URLLC PDSCH transmissions based on the determined PUCCH resource.

Low-latency physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) enhancements and resource configuration

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes circuitry configured to determine that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with low priority (LP) overlaps with a high priority (HP) PUCCH carrying a HP hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a HP PUCCH with a positive HP scheduling request (SR). The HP PUCCH with HP HARQ-ACK does not overlap with the HP PUCCH with the positive HP SR. The circuitry is further configured to multiplex a LP HARQ-ACK only with the HP HARQ-ACK.

Collision handling between multiple high priority PUCCHs with HARQ-ACK and SR and a low priority PUCCH with HARQ-ACK

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine HARQ-ACK feedback timing for HARQ-ACK feedback of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions with a subslot structure. The higher layer processor is also configured to determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the URLLC PDSCH transmissions based on the HARQ-ACK feedback timing and the PUCCH resource.

Subslot-based HARQ-ACK timing and PUCCH resource determination for ultra-low latency PDSCH transmission

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE a higher layer processor configured to determine an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing starting symbol on an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The higher layer processor is also configured to determine a resource element (RE) mapping for URLLC UCI multiplexing on the eMBB PUSCH from the UCI multiplexing starting symbol. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform multiplexing of the URLLC UCI on the eMBB PUSCH based on the RE mapping.

Mapping methods for URLLC HARQ-ACK multiplexing on eMBB PUSCH

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine a multiplexing location of an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) uplink control information (UCI) on an enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform multiplexing of the URLLC UCI on the eMBB PUSCH.

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