This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for associating a wireless communication device such as a wireless station (STA) of a STA multi-link device (MLD) with an access point (AP) MLD that includes a first AP associated with a first communication link of the AP MLD and includes one or more secondary APs associated with one or more respective secondary communication links of the first AP MLD. The first AP includes one or more virtual APs, and the first AP and the one or more virtual APs of the first AP belong to a first multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) set associated with the first communication link. The AP MLD transmits a frame including a first element carrying discovery information for the first AP and the one or more virtual APs belonging to the first multiple BSSID set, and including a second element carrying discovery information for the one or more secondary APs of the first AP MLD associated with the one or more respective secondary communication links of the first AP MLD.

A wireless device receives a DCI indicating a first priority of a transport block and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing of a HARQ feedback of the transport block. The wireless device switches, after receiving the DCI and before the HARQ feedback timing, from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part as an active bandwidth part. The wireless device transmits or drops the HARQ feedback based on whether or not the first priority of the transport block comprises a first value.

A method for controlling block acknowledgement feedback includes: for multiple transmission links for transmitting continuous data frames, sending a block acknowledgement feedback control identifier from a first communication device to a second communication device. The block acknowledgement feedback control identifier is configured to indicate an enabled or disenabled state of block confirmation feedback of the transmission link.

A method and apparatus for switching between unicast and multicast by considering degraded user experience in a wireless communication system is described. A CU of a RAN node receives, from the DU, a first switching message including status of the MBS for each of the first wireless device and the second wireless device. A CU of a RAN node determines to switch the first transmission to a third transmission only for the first wireless device for the MBS, based on the received status of the MBS.

The present application provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives first configuration information and second configuration information; transmits a first message, the first message comprising at least a former one of a first signature sequence and first data; and receives a second message; and transmits a third message on a second time-frequency resource block, a first bit block being used to generate the third message; the first configuration information indicates a first time-frequency resource block, the first time-frequency resource block being used to transmit the first signature sequence in the first message; the second configuration information indicates multiple shared resource units; whether the first signature sequence is mapped to one shared resource unit of the multiple shared resource units is used to determine whether the first message comprises the first data.

The present disclosure relates to a 5.sup.th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4.sup.th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, in a wireless communication system, a base station comprises: at least one transceiver, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor may be configured to: control the at least one transceiver to transmit first data based on a first hybrid automatic request (HARQ) process; control the at least one transceiver to transmit second data based on the first HARQ process; based on transmitting the second data, generate third databased on the result of the first data being received; and control the at least one transceiver to transmit the third data based on a second HARQ process.

A method and apparatus are provided for controlling an active state in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information related to a starting position of an active state and information related to a length of a first timer; deriving the starting position of the active state based on the information related to the starting position; starting the first timer set to the length of the first timer and entering the active state at the derived starting position; terminating the active state if control data indicating a transmission of user data is not received until the first timer expires; extending a period of the active state if the control data is received before the first timer expires; and terminating the active state based on a control signal indicating a termination of the active state.

A method and apparatus are provided for controlling an active state in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information related to a starting position of an active state and information related to a length of a first timer; deriving the starting position of the active state based on the information related to the starting position; starting the first timer set to the length of the first timer and entering the active state at the derived starting position; terminating the active state if control data indicating a transmission of user data is not received until the first timer expires; extending a period of the active state if the control data is received before the first timer expires; and terminating the active state based on a control signal indicating a termination of the active state.

A network device is provided. The network device includes one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to one or more of receive the DL MU PPDU, decode a data frame from the DL MU PPDU, determine whether an acknowledgement (ACK) policy indicated in the MAC header signals a trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy, and determine whether a trigger indication for an uplink (UL) MU transmission has been obtained from a payload of a data frame. In response to the processor determines that the ACK policy indication signals the trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy and determines that the trigger indication has been obtained, the processor is configured to transmit a trigger-based immediate acknowledgement frame to the AP in an UL MU PPDU, based on the trigger indication. In response to the processor determines that the ACK policy signals the trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy and determines that the trigger indication has not been obtained, the processor is configured to not transmit an immediate acknowledgement to the access point.

A network device is provided. The network device includes one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to one or more of receive the DL MU PPDU, decode a data frame from the DL MU PPDU, determine whether an acknowledgement (ACK) policy indicated in the MAC header signals a trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy, and determine whether a trigger indication for an uplink (UL) MU transmission has been obtained from a payload of a data frame. In response to the processor determines that the ACK policy indication signals the trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy and determines that the trigger indication has been obtained, the processor is configured to transmit a trigger-based immediate acknowledgement frame to the AP in an UL MU PPDU, based on the trigger indication. In response to the processor determines that the ACK policy signals the trigger-based immediate acknowledgement policy and determines that the trigger indication has not been obtained, the processor is configured to not transmit an immediate acknowledgement to the access point.