The disclosure pertains to configuring a physical channel monitoring occasion in a wireless network and to scheduling beam failure recovery requests by an WTRU in a CONNECTED DRX state.

The disclosure pertains to configuring a physical channel monitoring occasion in a wireless network and to scheduling beam failure recovery requests by an WTRU in a CONNECTED DRX state.

A beam detection method and apparatus addresses communication quality for downlink beam detection. The beam detection method comprises: a user equipment receiving beam quality monitoring signals sent by a network device by using M beams; determining signal quality indicators of M beam quality monitoring signals, and determining, based on the signal quality indicator of each of the M beam quality monitoring signals, a beam quality indicator of a beam used for sending a beam quality monitoring signal; generating a first detection report which comprises at least one of indication information of at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet a first threshold, from among the M beams, the beam quality indicator of the at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet the first threshold, from among the M beams.

A beam detection method and apparatus addresses communication quality for downlink beam detection. The beam detection method comprises: a user equipment receiving beam quality monitoring signals sent by a network device by using M beams; determining signal quality indicators of M beam quality monitoring signals, and determining, based on the signal quality indicator of each of the M beam quality monitoring signals, a beam quality indicator of a beam used for sending a beam quality monitoring signal; generating a first detection report which comprises at least one of indication information of at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet a first threshold, from among the M beams, the beam quality indicator of the at least one beam, the beam quality indicator of which does not meet the first threshold, from among the M beams.

Disclosed herein is a first wireless communication node comprising a first communication module that includes a first baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the first communication module, a first RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the first communication module, and a first antenna unit configured to generate a first extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node. The first wireless communication node may also comprise a second communication module that includes a second baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the second communication module, a second RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the second communication module, and a second antenna unit configured to generate a second extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node.

Disclosed herein is a first wireless communication node comprising a first communication module that includes a first baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the first communication module, a first RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the first communication module, and a first antenna unit configured to generate a first extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node. The first wireless communication node may also comprise a second communication module that includes a second baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the second communication module, a second RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the second communication module, and a second antenna unit configured to generate a second extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for improving the performance and range of wireless communication systems. In various embodiments, a wireless and wireline architecture is implemented to allow a channel to more efficiently span physical barriers within the channel. The wireline portion of the channel may leverage pre-existing copper deployed within a building by interfacing copper with north and south transceiver nodes that allow the signal to propagate through a physical structure on the wire itself resulting in significantly less signal degradation compared to the signal having to traverse the physical structure wirelessly.

A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station, a message including at least one reporting configuration and resource configuration for a number of channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource patterns associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). Each of the configured CSI-IM resource patterns corresponds to a time and frequency location in a resource block of a neighbor cell associated with a second RAT. The UE transmits one or more CSI reports based on the reporting configuration(s) and the resource configuration(s).

A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station, a message including at least one reporting configuration and resource configuration for a number of channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource patterns associated with a first radio access technology (RAT). Each of the configured CSI-IM resource patterns corresponds to a time and frequency location in a resource block of a neighbor cell associated with a second RAT. The UE transmits one or more CSI reports based on the reporting configuration(s) and the resource configuration(s).

A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from one or more others of infrastructure equipment, the data having been received at the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment from one or more communications devices or from other infrastructure equipment, and transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, the data from the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment to the core network part of the wireless communications network. At least one of the infrastructure equipment uses at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique to receive the signals, the at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique allowing the at least one infrastructure equipment to receive the signals in the backhaul communications link.