The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. According to various embodiments of the present invention, a method and an apparatus for effectively transmitting data of a small size in a next-generation mobile communication system may be provided.

An information transmission method and a device are provided. The method is performed by an initiating node and includes: sending request to send Request To Send (RTS) information, where the RTS information includes identifier information of a responding node; and receiving confirm to send Confirm To Send (CTS) information from the responding node.

Provided are an initial access method, a controlled device and a controlling device, which can realize initial access in short-range communication without depending on a PRACH preamble. The initial access method comprises: a controlled device acquiring an initial access resource; the controlled device sending, on the initial access resource, initial access information to a controlling device; and the controlled device monitoring access feedback information sent by the controlling device, wherein the access feedback information is used for indicating that the controlled device has successfully accessed the controlling device.

A first device within a multi-link device having a plurality of wireless links including a first link and a second link, may include one or more processors configured to receive a first frame on the first link while communicating with a second device for transmission of a second frame on the second link. The one or more processors may decode a portion of the first frame to determine a first duration of no medium access. The one or more processors may determine, a second duration comprising a remaining transmission duration on the second link. The one or more processors may determine whether the first duration is greater than or equal to the second duration. In response to the first duration being greater than or equal to the second duration, the one or more processors may defer channel access on the first link until an end of the first duration.

The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method and a device for configuring data transmission are provided. The method includes transmitting a first message to a second node, the first message being used for the first node to provide configuration information for a user to the second node, or used for the first node to request the configuration information for the user from the second node, and/or receiving a second message from the second node, the second message being used for the second node to provide the configuration information for the user to the first node, or used for the second node to request the configuration information for the user from the first node, to avoid unnecessary signaling overhead.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a base station. The UE may receive a message configuring a random access occasion and a PUSCH occasion. The UE may transmit a random access preamble according to the random access occasion scheduled in the message. The UE may also transmit a repetition of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) data of the message corresponding to the random access occasion in each uplink transmission time interval for a defined number of uplink transmission time intervals that occur after the random access occasion.

Technologies directed to reducing medium access contention within a wireless network are described. One method includes a first wireless device (e.g., an access point (AP) or mesh station) receiving first data with a first schedule from a second wireless device. Both wireless devices operate on a first channel or an adjacent channel in a wireless network. The first schedule defines a first interval during which the second wireless device transmits or receives frames on the first channel or the second channel. The first wireless device generates a second schedule that defines a second interval during which the first wireless device transmits or receives frames on the first or second channels, the second interval being non-overlapping with the first interval. First wireless device sends second data with the second schedule to the second AP device and communicates a data frame with a device connected to the first wireless device according to the second schedule.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information that configures multiple random access channel (RACH) partitions, wherein the multiple RACH partitions are each associated with a respective combination of one or more RACH features. The UE may select, from the multiple RACH partitions, a RACH partition based at least in part on the UE satisfying one or more criteria for the combination of one or more RACH features associated with the RACH partition. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a preamble on physical RACH (PRACH) resources associated with the RACH partition to initiate a RACH procedure supporting the combination of one or more RACH features associated with the RACH partition. Numerous other aspects are described.

Methods and systems for localization within an environment include determining a topology estimate of nodes located in a dynamic indoor environment, based on distances measured between the nodes. Rigid k-core sub-graphs of the topology estimate are generated to determine relative localizations of the nodes. Relative localizations are transformed into absolute localizations to generate a map of positions of the nodes within the environment. A feature of the map is deployed to a device in the environment.

A wireless communication method performed by a first apparatus includes acquiring a transmit opportunity (TXOP) to transmit or receive a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), identifying a second apparatus for sharing the TXOP, permitting at least one of transmission and reception of a second PPDU to the second apparatus in the shared TXOP, and transmitting the first PPDU to at least one third apparatus in the shared TXOP or receiving the first PPDU from the at least one third apparatus.