The invention relates to improve use of resource units in MU transmissions of an 802.11ax network. An un-associated station may receive data frames over a downlink resource unit, RU, assigned to an AID, e.g. 2045, reserved for stations not associated with the AP, The AP may use a downlink RU sharing an allocation scheme feature of an uplink RU previously used by the un-associated station. The AP may also aggregated data frames addressed to several stations within the same downlink RU, for instance to acknowledge frames previously received from the stations. The aggregated data frames may signal which respective response RUs the addressee stations should use for a next multi-user uplink transmission to respond to the AP. These approaches particularly applies to the exchange of management frames for instance to speed up the association procedure of un-associated stations.

The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving a beam report at a UE and a base station. The base station can configure a cDRX cycle with the UE. Also, the UE can wake up during an off period of the cDRX cycle. The UE can also compare a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam for communication with the base station. Additionally, the UE can transmit a beam report to the base station, during the off period, based on the comparison of the first metric of the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams and the second metric of the current beam. The UE can also select, during the off period of the cDRX cycle, the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify, for a user equipment (UE), a configuration for receiving a set of downlink control information (DCI) messages on one or more layers of a set of layers of a downlink shared channel. The base station may transmit, to the UE, a first DCI message in a downlink control channel, where the first DCI message may schedule resources of the downlink shared channel for the set of piggybacking DCI messages. The UE may receive the first DCI message and identify the configuration for receiving the set of DCI messages on the one or more layers of the downlink shared channel. The UE may receive, from the base station, the set of DCI messages on the one or more layers of the downlink shared channel based on the identified configuration.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive group common downlink control information (GC-DCI) including an indication of a periodic communication cancellation resource pattern. The UE may selectively cancel a scheduled periodic communication occasion based at least in part on a determination of whether a resource associated with the scheduled periodic communication occasion overlaps with the periodic communication cancellation resource pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.

A sidelink device can perform a network coded sidelink transmission without increasing resource overhead by using resources originally reserved for retransmission of a packet, The sidelink device can reuse the reserved resources when retransmission is not needed based on feedback of the initial sidelink transmission. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission of sidelink data received from other sidelink devices. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use the reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission including a retransmission of the sidelink device's own sidelink data and sidelink data from other devices.

A method of scheduling data transmission of a group of wireless devices, in a wireless communication network, comprising: determining a relative transmission timing relation between a reference wireless device out of the group of wireless devices and at least one wireless device out of the group of wireless devices; and scheduling the data transmission of the at least one wireless devices based on the indicated relative transmission timing relation in response to a scheduling request.

Various arrangements for performing cellular network slice assignment are detailed herein. A cellular network can be used to provide cellular network service to user equipment (UE) using a first slice of the cellular network. The cellular network can receive from the UE a request to transition to a different slice of the cellular network that provides a quality of service (QoS) parameter that is greater than the QoS on an original slice. The cellular network can determine that the UE is eligible to be moved to the different slice based on a location of the UE. Based on receiving the request to transition and the location of the UE, the UE can be reassigned to the different slice of the cellular network.

A communication system for performing DRX-aware channel resource allocation is described. The communication system includes a plurality of radio points (RPs), each configured to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with a plurality of user equipment (UEs) at a site. The communication system also includes a baseband controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of radio points. The baseband controller is configured to reallocate a second UE's channel resource in a first UE's DRX subcycle, for RPs in a first UE's combining zone vector (CZV), from a second UE to a first UE, wherein the first UE's CZV matches the second UE's CZV.

Provided are an operation method performed by a first distributed unit (DU) of a first parent node communicating with a mobile terminal (MT) of an IAB node in a wireless communication system, and a device using the method. The first parent node acquires first configuration information about the first DU, acquires second configuration information about a second DU of a second parent node communicating with the MT, and restricts, on the basis of the first configuration information and the second configuration information, downlink transmission or uplink reception operations of the first DU if predetermined conditions are satisfied.

The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus for interruption handling for V2X communication are provided.