The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support higher data rates after a 4G communication system, such as an LTE system. A method for receiving buffer status information by an access point in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, a contention sub-slot and a dedicated sub-slot are determined for each station connected to the access point, a data trigger action frame is generated based on a first element including allocation information on the dedicated sub-slot to be used by a related station in a buffer status report (BSR) phase where each of the stations transmits buffer status information to the access point, the generated data trigger action frame is broadcasted to the stations, and a BSR frame transmitted based on the data trigger action frame is received from each of the stations.

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for performing RLC retransmission based on contention-based PUSCH in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a MAC PDU including at least one RLC PDU received from a RLC entity and an identifier of the UE using a CB grant to an eNB; determining whether the MAC PDU transmission using the CB grant is failed or not; indicating result of the determining for the MAC PDU transmission using the CB grant; receiving the at least one RLC PDU at a next transmission opportunity if the MAC PDU transmission using the CB grant is failed, without considering that RLC status report including NACK for the at least one RLC PDU is not received.

A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus using multiple transmission speed partitioning and cooperative transmission are disclosed. The WLAN communication method includes transmitting, by access point to the nodes, transmission time slots, partitions and internal transmission priorities using transmission time slot information, partition information and internal transmission priority information, receiving uplink packet from one node, determining whether downlink data to be transmitted to the high speed or the low speed node is present, or not in the download queue, transmitting, if present, the downlink packet to the nodes, removing downlink data from the download queue for ACK, and transmitting, if not present, transmitting ACK to the nodes.

Systems and methods for throttling-based traffic steering are disclosed, In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node in a wireless communications network to provide traffic steering of a wireless device being served by the wireless communications network includes selecting the wireless device to be steered away from the wireless communications network and throttling a connection of the wireless device to the wireless communications network to provide traffic steering of the wireless device away from the wireless communications network. In some embodiments, this connection throttling will induce the wireless device to steer away from the wireless communications network to a different wireless communications network such as a wireless local access network.

Improved collision-avoidance techniques for a wireless communications system are described. In various embodiments, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a determination component for execution by the processor circuit to determine a current transmission interval comprising a series of beacon intervals, each of the series of beacon intervals comprising a plurality of time slots, randomly select one of the series of beacon intervals, and randomly select one of the plurality of time slots within the selected beacon interval, and a communications component for execution by the processor circuit to send a join request during the selected time slot. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A wireless communication system under a contention-based protocol comprises an access point and at least one station, wherein the station is arranged for wirelessly communicating with the access point under the contention-based protocol. In the operations of the wireless communication system, the access point broadcasts a polling usage sequence to assign a time slot for the station, and the station subsequently uses the assigned time slot to transmit a data packet to the access point.

A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus using multiple transmission speed partitioning and cooperative transmission are disclosed. The WLAN communication method includes transmitting, by access point to the nodes, transmission time slots, partitions and internal transmission priorities using transmission time slot information, partition information and internal transmission priority information, receiving uplink packet from one node, determining whether downlink data to be transmitted to the high speed or the low speed node is present, or not in the download queue, transmitting, if present, the downlink packet to the nodes, removing downlink data from the download queue for ACK, and transmitting, if not present, transmitting ACK to the nodes.

A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus using multiple transmission speed partitioning and cooperative transmission are disclosed. The WLAN communication method includes transmitting, by access point to the nodes, transmission time slots, partitions and internal transmission priorities using transmission time slot information, partition information and internal transmission priority information, receiving uplink packet from one node, determining whether downlink data to be transmitted to the high speed or the low speed node is present, or not in the download queue, transmitting, if present, the downlink packet to the nodes, removing downlink data from the download queue for ACK, and transmitting, if not present, transmitting ACK to the nodes.

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support higher data rates after a 4G communication system, such as an LTE system. A method for receiving buffer status information by an access point in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, a contention sub-slot and a dedicated sub-slot are determined for each station connected to the access point, a data trigger action frame is generated based on a first element including allocation information on the dedicated sub-slot to be used by a related station in a buffer status report (BSR) phase where each of the stations transmits buffer status information to the access point, the generated data trigger action frame is broadcasted to the stations, and a BSR frame transmitted based on the data trigger action frame is received from each of the stations.

Embodiments herein relate to a method, performed by a network node (110) in a wireless communication system (100), for handling resource allocations for a first User Equipment, UE (120a) out of a set of UEs (120). Each of the UEs (120) in the set of UEs 5(120) has a different pre-configured frequency allocation for cyclic transmissions, such as cyclic UL and/or DL transmissions. The network node (110) determines, based on a data arrival pattern, such as e.g. a packet arrival time, of the cyclic UL transmissions for each of the UEs in the set of UEs (120), one or more TTIs, where a collision between transmissions to and/or from two UEs (120) out of the set of UEs (120) may occur. The 10 network node (110) reconfigures the frequency allocation for a first UE (120a) of the two UEs (120) to overlap, at least partly, with the frequency of a second UE (120b) of the two UEs (120) for the TTIs other than the TTIs where the collision between the transmissions to and/or from the first and the second UEs (120a, 120b) may occur. Embodiments herein further relate to a method, performed by the first UE (120a) out of the set of UEs (120) in 15 the wireless communication system (100), for handling resource allocation for the first UE (120a) out of the set of UEs (120).