The present disclosure provides a method and device for determining an uplink-downlink switching point. The method is used in a base station. The method includes: setting configuration information for determining an uplink-downlink switching point; and sending the configuration information to the terminal, so that the terminal determines the uplink-downlink switching point according to the configuration information. Therefore, the present disclosure can prevent the terminal from performing invalid detection on an unlicensed carrier, and can also improve the speed and accuracy of determining the uplink-downlink switching point by the terminal.

For supporting higher data rates, resource configuration includes: acquiring, by a terminal, a configuration of physical resources; and performing, by the terminal, transmission according to the configured physical resources, wherein performing, by the terminal, transmission according to the configured physical resources comprises one of: neither performing, by the terminal, uplink transmission nor performing downlink reception on the configured physical resources; performing, by the terminal, only downlink reception on the configured physical resources; and performing, by the terminal, only uplink transmission on the configured physical resources.

A system for negotiating Ethernet link settings between interconnected nodes in a network having an Ethernet protocol stack that includes a PCS sub-layer with an auto-negotiation function. The system comprises connecting an intermediate device coupled between two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces, with the link settings between each node and the connected intermediate device being the same, thereby bypassing the auto-negotiation of the PCS sub-layer in the intermediate device. The intermediate device may transparently send negotiation messages from each node to the other during the link negotiation phase without interacting with those messages. Instead of the intermediate device, a single form pluggable (SFP) device may be connected between the two network nodes via optical or copper interfaces on the network side and via an SFP slot on the device side.

Apparatus and method to configure different sets of resources or transmission parameters based on previously reported feedback signals. The apparatus receives, from a UE, at least one feedback signal comprising at least one measurement of a downlink connection between the base station and the UE. The apparatus configures a plurality of sets of resources or communication parameters for communication with the UE. The plurality of sets of resources or communication parameters are configured based on the at least one feedback signal. The apparatus switches to at least one set of the plurality of sets of resources or communication parameters for communication with the UE.

Various embodiments provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. In those embodiments, a terminal device receives first indication information and second indication information from a network device. The first indication information indicates a position of a first reference point, the second indication information indicates a first quantity, the first quantity is a quantity of offset units between the first reference point and a second reference point, and the second reference point is an endpoint of a first physical resource block (PRB). The terminal device determines a position of the first PRB based on the first indication information, the second indication information, and an identifier of a subcarrier corresponding to the first reference point. Therefore, the terminal device can complete, without learning of a system bandwidth, a process of determining a PRB corresponding to a start point of a PRB number in the system bandwidth.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a user equipment (UE) to report packet switched voice call capabilities to a base station. The UE may explicitly report voice call capabilities via one or more system-level parameters that are transmitted to the base station. The base station may operate in a first radio access network (RAN), such as a 5G or new radio (NR) RAN. In cases where the UE indicates a capability for packet switched voice calls via the first RAN, one or more voice calls may be established with the UE via the first RAN. In cases where the UE indicates that it is not capable of packet switched voice calls via the first RAN, the UE may fall back to a different RAN (e.g., a 4G or LTE RAN, a 3G RAN, or a 2G RAN) for voice calls.

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.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) from a network entity, a resource configuration message. The resource configuration message includes a first parameter corresponding to full duplex (FD) uplink (UL) and a second parameter corresponding to FD downlink (DL). The method further includes transmitting, from the UE to the network entity, a FD reference signal based on the resource configuration message. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Provided in the implementations of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device, capable of achieving OAM based wireless communications. The wireless communication method includes: the terminal device determining to use a first transmission mode to transmit data, wherein the first transmission mode is a MIMO or OAM based transmission mode.

Improved techniques are provided for managing and optimizing network resources and spectrum access in a Self-Organizing Network (SON). A Spectrum Access System (SAS) collects network-related information from a plurality of network sources, such as base stations and user equipments (UEs), to perform optimization and organization across different networks, network operators, and network technologies. In some embodiments, the SAS may use the network information and a Radio Environment Map to optimize TDD synchronization in the SON. In other embodiments, the SAS may use the network information to populate a global Neighbor Relation Table. The SAS also may use the network information to optimize one or more network parameters, such as Physical Cell Identities or Root Sequence Indexes, antenna parameters, transmit power levels, handover thresholds, channel assignments, and so on, for use in the SON. Advantageously, the SAS's optimized network parameters may be used to improve network performance, reduce signal interference, and adjust to network failures in the SON.