Systems and methods for signaling in an increased carrier monitoring wireless communication environment are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may include control circuitry to configure the UE for increased carrier monitoring; determine, based on a first signal received from a network apparatus, whether a reduced performance group carrier is configured; determine, based on a second signal received from the network apparatus, whether a scaling factor is configured; and in response to a determination that no reduced performance group carrier is configured and a determination that no scaling factor is configured, allow the UE to monitor fewer carriers than required by increased carrier monitoring. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention provides a communication method in a wireless communication system. The method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station serving the station in a cellular network, information indicating a first transmission period of an access point serving the station in a wireless network; setting a first channel period, for communicating with the access point, based on the first transmission period, receiving, from the access point, information indicating a second transmission period determined by the access point; and updating the first channel period to a second channel period based on the second transmission period.

Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving a downlink reference signal. A cell-specific downlink reference signal (CRS) is transmitted in a partial frequency band of the entire downlink frequency band. Configuration information of the CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band is provided to user equipment. The CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band may be used in downlink channel measurement alone or together with a legacy CRS.

The present invention is designed so that communication can be carried out adequately even when the bandwidth to use is limited to partial reduced bandwidths in a system bandwidth. According to an example of the present invention, a user terminal, in which the bandwidth to use is limited to a partial reduced bandwidth in a system bandwidth, has an acquiring section that acquires EPDCCH (Enhanced PDCCH) configuration information based on information that is reported from a radio base station without using a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), and a receiving section that detects a user terminal-specific search space (USS: UE-specific Search Space) of an EPDCCH based on the EPDCCH configuration information.

An apparatus of a base station (BS) of a radio access network (RAN) comprises memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes a central unit (CU) portion and a distributed unit (DUI) portion that implement a BS multi-layer protocol stack divided between the CU portion and the DU portion. The processing circuitry initiates a handover to change a serving cell of user equipment (UE). The handover includes a change in a portion of logical layers of the BS multi-layer protocol stack, and the processing circuitry encodes an information element for transmission to the UE indicating logical layers of a UE multi-layer protocol stack implemented in the UE to be reset by the UE in association with the handover.

An apparatus of a base station (BS) of a radio access network (RAN) comprises memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes a central unit (CU) portion and a distributed unit (DUI) portion that implement a BS multi-layer protocol stack divided between the CU portion and the DU portion. The processing circuitry initiates a handover to change a serving cell of user equipment (UE). The handover includes a change in a portion of logical layers of the BS multi-layer protocol stack, and the processing circuitry encodes an information element for transmission to the UE indicating logical layers of a UE multi-layer protocol stack implemented in the UE to be reset by the UE in association with the handover.

A method for providing a service based on a user scenario, a terminal device, and a system. The terminal device perceives the user scenario with low power consumption, and a cloud-side service open platform determines a corresponding scenario package based on the user scenario, where the scenario package includes a plurality of pre-orchestrated services for the user scenario. The service open platform pushes data related to the determined scenario package to the terminal device, and the terminal device displays entry interfaces of the plurality of services, and provides a corresponding service based on an operation performed by a user on the entry interface.

A wireless communication network serves wireless user devices over a radio channel that is allocated into subchannels for wireless network slices. A wireless access node schedules resource blocks from the subchannels to the wireless user devices based on their wireless network slices. The wireless access node detects a subchannel has available resource blocks and other subchannels need the available resource blocks. The wireless access node schedules the available resource blocks to the wireless user devices that need the available resource blocks and that use a higher priority wireless network slice. The wireless access node wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless user devices over the scheduled resource blocks and exchanges the user data with the wireless network slices. The wireless network slices exchanging at least some of the user data with external systems.

A first wireless device may determine a bandwidth for transmitting a frame, calculate two or more Spatial Reuse (SR) parameter values for the bandwidth, set, using the SR parameter values, first and second SR fields of the frame based on the bandwidth and a channel center frequency in which the bandwidth is carried, and transmit the frame to a second wireless device on the bandwidth. The first and second SR fields may be set to a first value when the bandwidth is a 40 MHz bandwidth and the channel center frequency is in a 2.4 GHz band. The first and second SR fields may be set to the first value when the bandwidth is an 80+80 MHz bandwidth and the channel center frequency is in a 5 GHz band. The first value may be a minimum of SR parameter values for first and second bandwidths in the bandwidth.

The disclosure relates to a method for configuring an WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) access point adapted to use at least one operational frequency channel to transmit or receive data when the access point is in an operational mode. The configuring includes checking an availability of at least one restricted frequency channel, a use of the restricted frequency channel being restricted by the availability, choosing the operational frequency channel from a set of frequency channels according to the checked availability, a first configuring comprising a first checking of restricted frequency channels belonging to a first proper sub-set of the set being performed before entering into the operational mode. At least one second checking of at least one restricted frequency channel of the set, that has not been checked as available, is performed after the first configuring.