A method for determining a modulation and coding scheme is disclosed. The method is performed by a network device. The method includes: determining a quantity K of terminal devices that reuse a first time-frequency resource in a first time period to receive downlink data from the network device, where K2; obtaining a channel quality indicator (CQI), where the CQI is determined according to a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of a channel and the quantity K of the terminal devices, where the channel is a channel based on the first time-frequency resource, and the channel is used to transmit downlink data between a first terminal device and the network device in the first time period; and determining a Modulation and Coding scheme (MCS) of the first terminal device according to the CQI.

Various devices, methods, and processes are provided for handling conflicting and/or redundant power control and triggering information for transmitting reference signal(s) such as sounding reference signal (SRS) using carrier aggregation (CA). A user equipment (UE) receives a first downlink control information (DCI) and a second DCI including SRS control information that is in conflict with that of the first DCI, for controlling SRS transmission on a component carrier (CC). The UE determines a resolution to reconcile the conflict between the DCIs. Then the UE can transmit an SRS on the CC in accordance with the resolution.

A method for configuring downlink multi-user transmission in a telecommunication network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first User Equipment (UE), data within a subframe wherein the data comprises a dynamic indicator; determining, by the first UE based on the received dynamic indicator, if the data within the subframe is for multi-user transmission, and if not so determined, using, by the first UE, a single-user receiver to decode the received data; and if so determined, identifying, by the first UE based on the dynamic indicator, at least one second UE that is paired with the first UE in multi-user transmission, and obtaining, by the first UE DCI information of said at least one second UE.

A carrier configuration method is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method includes configuring a new carrier type NCT subframe and/or a backward compatible subframe on a first carrier, determining subframe configuration information of the first carrier according to the configuration of the NCT subframe and/or the configuration of the backward compatible subframe on the first carrier and sending the subframe configuration information of the first carrier to first user equipment (UE) by using dynamic signaling, where the subframe configuration information of the first carrier is used by the first UE to determine a subframe type of a subframe on the first carrier according to the subframe configuration information of the first carrier. The method further includes using, according to the subframe type of the subframe on the first carrier, the first carrier to perform communication.

The invention relates to a control channel signal for use in a mobile communication system providing at least two different scheduling modes. Further the invention relates to a scheduling unit for generating the control channel signal and a base station comprising the scheduling unit. The invention also relates to the operation of a mobile station and a base station for implementing a scheduling mode using the control channel signal. In order to facilitate the use of different scheduling schemes for user data transmission while avoiding an additional flag for indicating the scheduling mode in the control signaling, the invention proposes the use of code points in existing control channel signal fields. Further, the invention proposes a specific scheduling mode for use in combination with the proposed control channel signal. According to this scheduling mode control channel information is only provided for retransmissions, while initial transmissions are decoded using blind detection.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for generating and communicating transport blocks. Certain aspects provide a method for allocating an ordered set of packets to a plurality of layers across a plurality of time resources. The method includes allocating one or more packets of the ordered set of packets in order across each of the plurality of layers prior to allocating packets of the ordered set of packets to each of the time resources of any one of the plurality of layers. The method further includes transmitting the plurality of layers.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment) and/or a base station. In one embodiment, the method includes the base station configuring the UE with a first serving cell and a second serving cell. The method also includes the base station configuring the UE with a periodicity for monitoring a downlink control signal in the first serving cell, wherein the base station is not allowed to configure the UE such that the periodicity includes a non-integer number of symbol(s) of the second serving cell, and wherein the downlink control signal includes a pre-emption indication (PI) for the second serving cell.

A method of reducing peak to average power ratio of uplink transmission includes, assigning a slice of transmission resource to uplink transmission from a user equipment, where all resource elements in the slice have a same Doppler value, mapping data to the slice, performing orthogonal time frequency space transformation to generate time-frequency domain data and processing the time-frequency domain data for transmission.

A bottom hole assembly includes a single wire bus, a legacy sensor coupled to the single wire bus, and at least one high frequency communication sensor coupled to the single wire bus. The high frequency communication sensor injects a high frequency signal alternating between high frequency synchronization pulses and high frequency data signals onto the single wire bus. A first high frequency pass filter coupled between the at least one high frequency communication sensor and the single wire bus is also included. The high frequency pass filter passes the high frequency signal to the single wire bus from the high frequency communication sensor. The bottom hole assembly includes a first high frequency blocking filter coupled between the legacy sensor and the single wire bus. The high frequency blocking filter blocks the high frequency signal from the high frequency communication sensor from disturbing a legacy signal at the legacy sensor.

Various devices, methods, and processes are provided for handling conflicting and/or redundant power control and triggering information for transmitting reference signal(s) such as sounding reference signal (SRS) using carrier aggregation (CA). A user equipment (UE) receives a first downlink control information (DCI) and a second DCI including SRS control information that is in conflict with that of the first DCI, for controlling SRS transmission on a component carrier (CC). The UE determines a resolution to reconcile the conflict between the DCIs. Then the UE can transmit an SRS on the CC in accordance with the resolution.