Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support reducing conflicts with between scheduling request opportunities and downlink resources. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a scheduling request periodicity and offset for identifying scheduling request opportunities. The UE and base station may apply the periodicity and the offset to a first subset of time periods of a set of multiple time periods, where the first subset of time periods may include scheduling request opportunities that do not overlap with resources allocated for downlink transmissions. Based on applying the offset and periodicity to the first subset of time periods, the UE may identify a scheduling request opportunity, in a first time period of the first subset, and may transmit a scheduling request to the base station via the scheduling request opportunity.

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a position estimation entity configures a sidelink anchor group with sidelink anchor(s), to which respective sidelink PRS pre-configuration(s) are sent. A UE transmits a request to schedule an on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation session of the UE. The position estimation entity provides the UE with assistance data associated with the sidelink anchor group for the on-demand sidelink PRS position estimation session. The UE sends the sidelink anchor group a sidelink PRS trigger to perform a sidelink PRS exchange with some or all of the sidelink anchor group in accordance with the respective sidelink PRS pre-configuration(s).

Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. A method comprises receiving from network instructions of how to control multi-user multiple input multiple output connections maintained by one or more radio access nodes, the connections utilising one or more slices. One or more radio access nodes perform, based at least in part on the received network instructions, multi-user pairing of terminal devices of the same or different slices, and determine, based at least in part on the received network instructions, slice-based quota taking multi-user pairing and interference arising from paired allocations into account.

Embodiments of the present invention provide A TID-based RTWT SP that can be configured for either trigger-based transmission or EDCA-based transmission for time sensitive traffic to reduce the chance of contention/collision on time sensitive traffic caused by non-time sensitive traffic using an EDCA mechanism. This can also reduce the chance of contention on time sensitive traffic when both trigger-based transmission and EDCA-based-transmission are used in the same TID-based RTWT SP. The AP MLD can dynamically adjust the schedule of TID-SPs for ether trigger-based or EDCA-based transmission and announce the new schedule of the TID-SPs according to the requirements of time sensitive traffic and/or traffic load condition, and can prioritize time sensitive transmission to meet QoS requirements.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for flexible selection of a type of mapping to use for mapping code blocks to a set of resources for transmission. A user equipment (UE) may transmit assistance information to a base station to assist the base station in selecting from a set of mapping types available for code block mapping. The UE may then receive, from the base station, an indication of a selected mapping type for code block mapping based on the assistance information. The assistance information may include a recommendation of a mapping type or a metric of a channel that the base station may use to select the mapping type. Because the mapping type may be selected dynamically (e.g., “on the fly”), the UE and the base station may be able to adaptively exploit different types of diversity.

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. In certain configurations, the UE receives DCI scheduling two or more downlink data channels to be transmitted in one or more slots. The UE determines an indication, in the DCI, indicating a first TCI state and a second TCI state. The UE receives each of the two or more downlink data channels in a respective first set of resources in accordance with the first TCI state and in a respective second set of resources in accordance with the second TCI state.

A repeater BWP switching schedule is provided for a repeater that is responsive to a user equipment BWP switching schedule. Should the repeater support a plurality of active user equipments, the user equipment BWP switching schedule is a superset of the BWP switching schedule for each individual user equipment. The repeater BWP switching schedule may thus be more granular than the UE BWP switching schedule.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a parent node in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network may transmit, to an IAB node having a mobile termination function (IAB-MT) and a distributed unit (IAB-DU), signaling indicating a set of restricted IAB-DU beams and associating the set of restricted IAB-DU beams with one or more IAB-MT beams, the set of restricted IAB-DU beams determined based on measurements related to interference caused by the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT performing a simultaneous operation in one or more simultaneous multiplexing modes. Additionally or alternatively, the parent node may perform scheduling for the IAB-MT based on signaling received from the IAB node that indicates beam-specific parameters related to a multiplexing capability for a beam pair that includes an IAB-MT beam and an IAB-DU beam associated with the IAB-MT beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a parent node in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network may transmit, to an IAB node having a mobile termination function (IAB-MT) and a distributed unit (IAB-DU), signaling indicating a set of restricted IAB-DU beams and associating the set of restricted IAB-DU beams with one or more IAB-MT beams, the set of restricted IAB-DU beams determined based on measurements related to interference caused by the IAB-DU and the IAB-MT performing a simultaneous operation in one or more simultaneous multiplexing modes. Additionally or alternatively, the parent node may perform scheduling for the IAB-MT based on signaling received from the IAB node that indicates beam-specific parameters related to a multiplexing capability for a beam pair that includes an IAB-MT beam and an IAB-DU beam associated with the IAB-MT beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.