A method and a system for sequencing user data packets are provided. The method includes the following. A user data packet including a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data packet data unit (PDU) header is received at hardware of a sublayer of a data link layer. The PDCP data PDU header is decoded at the sublayer to obtain a sequence number of the user data packet. The received user data packet is queued at the sublayer according to the sequence number of the user data packet to assemble a set of consecutively numbered user data packets. At least a portion of the set of consecutively numbered user data packets is delivered from the sublayer to another sublayer of the data link layer.

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for relaying and side link communication are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a BS via a controlled discovery procedure, a query to verify a sidelink procedure with at least one UE. The example method may further include establishing, via the BS as a L2 relay, the sidelink procedure with the at least one UE. The example method may further include switching from the sidelink procedure to a sidelink PDCP procedure with a hybrid mode, the BS being an L2 relay for the sidelink PDCP procedure. The example method may further include transmitting to the at least one UE via the BS as the L2 relay, or receiving, from the at least one UE via the BS as an L2 relay, one or more PDCP PDUs corresponding to L2.

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for relaying and side link communication are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a BS via a controlled discovery procedure, a query to verify a sidelink procedure with at least one UE. The example method may further include establishing, via the BS as a L2 relay, the sidelink procedure with the at least one UE. The example method may further include switching from the sidelink procedure to a sidelink PDCP procedure with a hybrid mode, the BS being an L2 relay for the sidelink PDCP procedure. The example method may further include transmitting to the at least one UE via the BS as the L2 relay, or receiving, from the at least one UE via the BS as an L2 relay, one or more PDCP PDUs corresponding to L2.

An apparatus and method for downlink data transmission and decoding are disclosed. In the method, a physical layer code block or a physical layer code block group is decoded. A medium access control (MAC) sub-packet corresponding to the decoded physical layer code block or the physical code block group is decoded without waiting for any subsequent physical layer code blocks to be decoded. The decoded MAC sub-packet is passed up a protocol stack.

Methods and apparatus for beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) is includes receiving, in a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, a pool of one or more reference signal (RS) resource indexes for a beam failure detection RS (BFD-RS) configuration; receiving a medium access control control element (MAC CE) command for BFD-RS activation; and receiving a control resource set (CORESET) with one or two transmission configuration information (TCI) states. The method further includes determining, based on the MAC CE command, a first set of one or more RS resource indexes for beam failure detection and determining, based on the one or two TCI states for the CORESET, one or more RS resource indexes in a second set of one or more RS resource indexes for beam failure detection.

The present invention relates a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for supporting a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set to efficiently use a wireless resource. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) through the communication unit, determines whether the PPDU contains an intra-BSS frame or contains an inter-BSS frame based on preamble information of the PPDU, and performs either a first operation or a second operation distinct from each other according to a determination result and a wireless communication method using the same.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sidelink operation method and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring sidelink configuration information, wherein the sidelink configuration information includes at least one of feedback configuration information and measurement configuration information; performing at least one of a measurement operation and a feedback operation on sidelink according to the sidelink configuration information.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sidelink operation method and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring sidelink configuration information, wherein the sidelink configuration information includes at least one of feedback configuration information and measurement configuration information; performing at least one of a measurement operation and a feedback operation on sidelink according to the sidelink configuration information.

Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, it may be helpful to improve the management of the uplink timing alignment where multiple numerologies are used. A method may include receiving at a user equipment an indication from a network node. The timing adjustment granularity may be determined implicitly based on one or more multiple numerology assigned to a timing advance group. The method may also include applying at the user equipment the indicated timing adjustment granularity associated with one of the multiple numerologies.

Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, it may be helpful to improve the management of the uplink timing alignment where multiple numerologies are used. A method may include receiving at a user equipment an indication from a network node. The timing adjustment granularity may be determined implicitly based on one or more multiple numerology assigned to a timing advance group. The method may also include applying at the user equipment the indicated timing adjustment granularity associated with one of the multiple numerologies.