Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing coverage while transmitting an acknowledgment (ACK) to a base station to acknowledge a beam change instruction. Such aspects of the present disclosure may increase the reliability of control information transmitted on a control channel by a user equipment (UE), such as ACK feedback transmitted on a physical uplink control channel by a UE to a base station. In certain aspects, a UE may receive, from a base station, information indicating a beam switch from a first beam via which the UE communicates with the base station to a second beam. The UE may further transmit, based on the information indicating the beam switch, two or more ACK messages to the base station on a control channel, and the two or more ACK messages may acknowledge receipt of the information indicating the beam switch from the base station.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced beam management using extended reality (XR) perception data. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes establishing a communication connection between a user equipment (UE) and a serving base station using a current serving beam selected by the UE from a plurality of available beams paired with a serving base station beam. The method further includes obtaining, perception information from one or more extended reality sensors associated with the UE and determining, in response to detection of UE movement, a transpositional representation of the movement using the perception information. The UE may then select a new serving beam in accordance with the transpositional representation. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced beam management using extended reality (XR) perception data. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes establishing a communication connection between a user equipment (UE) and a serving base station using a current serving beam selected by the UE from a plurality of available beams paired with a serving base station beam. The method further includes obtaining, perception information from one or more extended reality sensors associated with the UE and determining, in response to detection of UE movement, a transpositional representation of the movement using the perception information. The UE may then select a new serving beam in accordance with the transpositional representation. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

A wireless device may receive a configuration parameter of a time-domain pattern indicating first timings that a first cell in a PUCCH group and second timings, including a transmission timing, that a second cell in the PUCCH group is the cell configured for PUCCH transmission. The wireless device may transmit uplink control information in the transmission timing via the second cell or via the first cell based on the activation or deactivation status of the second cell in the transmission timing.

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The present disclosure provides a method and equipment for supporting a handover, which discloses: a method performed by a first node in a wireless communication network, including: receiving a handover request message from a core network node; sending a first message including an indication of direct data forwarding to a second node; and receiving a second message including information on data forwarding tunnel allocated by the second node from the second node.

Beamforming measurement techniques based on PSS/SSS are disclosed. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode a configuration message from a source serving cell, the configuration message indicating signal selection criteria for cell measurement reporting. A synchronization signal (SS) burst set associated with one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) within a neighboring cell is decoded, the SS burst set including a plurality of SS blocks. A cell beamforming measurement signal associated with the neighboring cell is generated, based on signal measurements of the SS blocks and the signal selection criteria. A radio resource management (RRM) measurement report message is encoded for transmission to the serving cell, the measurement report message including the cell beamforming measurement signal. A handover command message for initiating a handover to the neighboring cell is decoded, the handover command based on the cell beamforming measurement signal.

Beamforming measurement techniques based on PSS/SSS are disclosed. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode a configuration message from a source serving cell, the configuration message indicating signal selection criteria for cell measurement reporting. A synchronization signal (SS) burst set associated with one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) within a neighboring cell is decoded, the SS burst set including a plurality of SS blocks. A cell beamforming measurement signal associated with the neighboring cell is generated, based on signal measurements of the SS blocks and the signal selection criteria. A radio resource management (RRM) measurement report message is encoded for transmission to the serving cell, the measurement report message including the cell beamforming measurement signal. A handover command message for initiating a handover to the neighboring cell is decoded, the handover command based on the cell beamforming measurement signal.

The present invention provides a wireless communication circuitry including a processor, a communication path and a channel detection path. The communication path is configured to wirelessly communicate with an electronic device by using a first channel. The channel detection path is configured to detect at least one channel different from the first channel to generate a detection result while the communication path is wirelessly communicating with the electronic device by using the first channel. The processor determines a second channel based on the detection result, and the processor controls the communication path to switch to the second channel from the first channel to communicate with the electronic device.

A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random-access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. The UE is configured or pre-configured with slice specific RACH resource configurations for some or all of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a RACH event, the UE is to determine a slice that triggered and/or that is associated with the RACH event, and select the slice specific RACH resource configuration associated with the determined slice to be used for performing a RACH procedure.

A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random-access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. The UE is configured or pre-configured with slice specific RACH resource configurations for some or all of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a RACH event, the UE is to determine a slice that triggered and/or that is associated with the RACH event, and select the slice specific RACH resource configuration associated with the determined slice to be used for performing a RACH procedure.