Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may adjust a transmission parameter, associated with an uplink transmission from the UE, such that a phase for the uplink transmission is continuous across symbols of the uplink transmission. Adjusting the transmission parameter includes at least one of: rate-matching, puncturing, or power scaling one or more of the symbols within the uplink transmission, modifying at least one of a modulation and coding scheme or a power associated with a downlink transmission to the UE, or a combination thereof. The UE may further transmit, to a base station, the uplink transmission based at least in part on adjusting the transmission parameter. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for slot aggregation configuration with user equipment (UE) assistance information. A method that may be performed by a UE may include transmitting, to a base station (BS), assistance information indicating a preferred repetition factor. The method generally includes receiving an indication from the BS of a repetition factor. The BS can determine the repetition factor for the UE based, at least in part, on the assistance information and indicate the determined repetition factor to the UE.

A method and an apparatus for receiving a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: establishing an RNTI associated with an MCS by a terminal; receiving a control channel for scheduling transmission of an uplink data channel or reception of a downlink data channel; and transmitting the uplink data channel or receiving the downlink data channel on the basis of one MCS table of a plurality of MCS tables, wherein the uplink data channel or the downlink data channel has been scheduled by the control channel and the one MCS table is determined on the basis of an RNTI associated with the MCS and an RNTI associated with the control channel.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for an uplink communication of the UE; identify a set of beta values for uplink control information of the uplink communication according to a mapping between the set of beta values and the MCS, wherein the set of beta values is for determination of a number of resource elements or modulation symbols for the uplink control information; and transmit the uplink control information based at least in part on the set of beta values. Numerous other aspects are provided.

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for optimizing transmission repetitions comprises: obtaining an initial number of transmission repetitions for coverage enhanced operation; receiving a wireless transmission comprising one or more repetitions; determining a number of received repetitions required for the wireless device to successfully decode the wireless transmission; determining the number of repetitions required to successfully decode the wireless transmission is different than the initial number of transmission repetitions; determining a desired number of repetitions based on the number of repetitions required to successfully decode the wireless transmission; and transmitting an indication of the desired number of repetitions to a network node.

A node and methods for securely communicating information are described. The node includes a transducer that provides a first stream of data elements, a network interface, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller identifies a first data type associated with the first stream of data elements from the transducer, harvests each data element (e.g., measurement) from the first stream of data elements based on the first data type, aggregates a plurality of the measurements into an array of first measurements, generates a payload that includes a length identifier, a data type identifier that identifies the first data type, and the array of first measurements, identifies a destination for the payload, determines a token based on the identified destination, adds the identified token to the payload to form a datagram; and sends the datagram to the destination, via the network interface.

A communication system utilizing reconfigurable antenna systems is described where beam steering and null forming techniques are incorporated to limit the region or volume available for communication with client devices. The communication system described restricts communication to defined or desired area and degrades signal strength coverage outside of a prescribed region. An algorithm is used to control the antenna system to monitor and control antenna system performance across the service area. This antenna system technique is applicable for use in communication systems such as a Local Area Network (LAN), cellular communication network, and Machine to Machine (M2M).

An information transmission method includes: receiving configuration information for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the configuration information is used for correspondingly configuring, for each PUCCH format, at least two maximum code rates (MCRs); receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI includes indication information for indicating an MCR used by a target PUCCH; and determining, according to the indication information in the DCI, the MCR used by the target PUCCH from the at least two MCRs correspondingly configured for a format of the target PUCCH.

The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network device for link adaptation. The method (100) includes: estimating (110) a probability distribution of downlink Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio, SINR, for a terminal device based at least on one or more Acknowledgement, ACK, or Negative Acknowledgement, NACK, messages from the terminal device; and determining (120) a Modulation and Coding Scheme, MCS, for downlink transmission to the terminal device based on the estimated probability distribution of downlink SINR.

A communication device and method are presented that support the use of both uniform and non-uniform constellations and provide a reasonable solution for signaling. Capability information is transmitted, said capability information indicating if non-uniform transmission constellations are supported by the mapping circuitry on the transmitter side and/or if non-uniform reception constellations are supported by the demapping circuitry on the receiver side.