Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration, the SRS resource configuration indicating at least a comb pattern for at least one SRS resource allocated to the UE and a puncturing unit for the comb pattern, wherein the comb pattern is divided into one or more puncturing units, wherein each puncturing unit comprises one or more time units of the comb pattern, and wherein each of the one or more time units comprises two or more symbols, and refrains from transmitting all SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within a first puncturing unit of the one or more puncturing units based on a determination that one or more SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within the first puncturing unit are to be dropped.

A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a set of configurations; determining, based on the set of configurations, a number N.sub.period.sup.S-SSB of sidelink synchronization signals and physical sidelink broadcast channel (S-SS/PSBCH) blocks to transmit in a period; and determining, based on the set of configurations, a transmission window for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the period. The method further includes determining a set of candidate slots for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the transmission window; performing channel access procedures before the set of candidate slots for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the transmission window; and transmitting, to another UE, the S-SS/PSBCH blocks over a sidelink channel with shared channel access, upon successfully performing the channel access procedures.

Embodiments contemplate methods, systems, and apparatuses for interference measurement in a wireless communication network, including wireless communication networks the employ MIMO in uplink and/or downlink communication. Embodiments contemplate identifying one or more interference measurement resource elements that may be received from one or more transmission points. Embodiments also contemplate performing interference measurement estimation based at least in part on the identified one or more interference measurement resource elements. Channel state information (CSI) perhaps in the form of reports may be generated based at least in part on the one or more interference measurement estimation. Embodiments also contemplate that the CSI report may be transmitted to one or more nodes. In some embodiments, the one or more interference measurement resource elements may be received as part of a set of resource elements.

A method is disclosed performed by a Wireless Device (WD) for handling one or more private transmissions (PT) from the WD in a wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving synchronization signaling occupying one or more first resource elements of a synchronization signal burst transmitted by a radio network node. The method comprises communicating PT in one or more second resource elements located on same time resources as the synchronization signal burst, wherein the one or more second resource elements are different from the one or more first resource elements.

A user equipment (UE) and a sidelink resource exclusion method are provided. The sidelink resource exclusion method includes identifying a first sidelink resource selected by the UE or reserved by a peer UE in a first slot from a candidate resource set in a resource selection window and in a first sidelink resource pool and excluding the first sidelink resource and/or sidelink subchannels in the first slot from the candidate resource set. This can solve issues in the prior art, increase a number of available resources that can be selected from the remaining candidate resource set, reduce interference to other transmissions in the same sidelink resource pool, reduce probability of transmission (Tx) collisions with other UEs, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.

Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) may include mapping a transport block (TB) to a first sub-physical sidelink shared channel (sub-PSSCH) of a plurality of sub-PSSCHs of a PSSCH and transmitting, to at least one other UE, the TB via the first sub-PSSCH.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support reduced bandwidth devices and particularly, allocation of control resource sets for reduced bandwidths. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, from a base station at a user equipment (UE) having a first type, a master information block (MIB) within a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The MIB includes CORESET size information and search space information for devices having a second type. The method also includes selecting a CORESET size from a plurality of preconfigured CORESET sizes based on a subcarrier spacing used to communicate with the base station. The method further includes monitoring a set of time and frequency resources to receive a message from the base station. The set of time and frequency resources has the selected CORESET size. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Apparatuses and methods for licensed assisted access over an air interface in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes determining a slot for a sidelink (SL) transmission of a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) based on a sensing and listen-before-talk (LBT) operation on a first air interface. The first air interface is for unlicensed spectrum. The method further includes transmitting, on the first air interface, the first PSSCH and receiving, on a second air interface, a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) with HARQ-ACK information in response to the first PSSCH. The second air interface is for licensed spectrum.

Provided is s a method for a base station to allocate a time interval resource to transceive a downlink data channel (PDSCH) or an uplink data channel (PUSCH). The method include allocating a time interval resource for each OFDM symbol on the basis of a slot or a mini-slot, transmitting, to a terminal, time interval resource configuration information including OFDM symbol allocation data for OFDM symbols used for data channel transception in the slot or the mini-slot, and transmitting, to the terminal, control information selecting one of the symbol allocation data included in the time interval resource configuration information.

A method for operating a radio access system comprises configuring a first carrier and a second carrier for use for radio access in a first radio access system. The second carrier is configured for frequency division duplex signalling. A useful frequency band of the second carrier is defined to, at least partially, overlap in frequency with a useful frequency band of a third carrier of a second radio access system. At least a part of the useful frequency band of the second carrier overlaps in frequency with guard bands of the third carrier. A method for signal scheduling comprises scheduling, in a first radio access system having a first carrier with a first carrier frequency band and a second carrier with a second carrier frequency band, uplink signals in the second carrier. Network nodes for carrying out the methods are also presented.