Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information determination method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a sidelink channel measurement result, and determining a timer length of a target DRX timer according to the sidelink channel measurement result; or receiving indication information from a second terminal and determining the timer length of the target DRX timer according the indication information from the second terminal; the indication information being used to indicate the timer length of the target DRX timer; wherein the first terminal communicates with the second terminal through a sidelink.

The disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for configuring a relay node. A first node transmits to a second node a message that carries information on a radio bearer for a user accessing the second node. Configuration of the radio bearer for data transmission in a multi-hop network is realized through the above method and apparatus.

A method (80) of performing transfer of data packets requiring a specified Quality of Service, QoS, by a User Equipment, UE, in an end-to-end, E2E, multi-hop sidelink radio communication (81). The UE comprises a processor operated protocol stack arranged for providing Physical, PHY, layer functionality, Media Access Control, MAC, layer functionality, Radio Link Control, RLC, layer functionality, and Adaptation, Adapt, layer functionality. The RLC layer functionality providing a plurality of ingress and egress RLC channels for transferring data packets. The method comprising receiving (83), by the RLC layer functionality, data packets a tan ingress RLC channel, mapping (84), by the Adapt layer functionality, data packets received at the ingress RLC channel to an egress RLC channel in accordance with a mapping rule for destining the data packets while maintaining the specified QoS, and transferring (86), by the RLC layer functionality, the mapped data packets at the egress RLC channel.

A method (80) of performing transfer of data packets requiring a specified Quality of Service, QoS, by a User Equipment, UE, in an end-to-end, E2E, multi-hop sidelink radio communication (81). The UE comprises a processor operated protocol stack arranged for providing Physical, PHY, layer functionality, Media Access Control, MAC, layer functionality, Radio Link Control, RLC, layer functionality, and Adaptation, Adapt, layer functionality. The RLC layer functionality providing a plurality of ingress and egress RLC channels for transferring data packets. The method comprising receiving (83), by the RLC layer functionality, data packets a tan ingress RLC channel, mapping (84), by the Adapt layer functionality, data packets received at the ingress RLC channel to an egress RLC channel in accordance with a mapping rule for destining the data packets while maintaining the specified QoS, and transferring (86), by the RLC layer functionality, the mapped data packets at the egress RLC channel.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to operate as a relay UE based on a set of thresholds configured for the first UE. The UE may transmit a relay discovery announcement on a communication channel of a sidelink to indicate support for relay communications. A remote UE may monitor for and receive the relay discovery announcement on the sidelink communications channel. The remote UE may select the relay UE based on a set of criteria for selecting a candidate relay UE. The remote UE and the relay UE may establish the relay communications based on the relay discovery announcement transmitted on the communications channel of the relay sidelink.

The present disclosure relates to a first type node (AP.sub.3) in a wireless communication system (1), wherein the first type node (AP.sub.3) is adapted to: —communicate with at least one other first type node (AP.sub.2) in the wireless communication system (1) over a corresponding backhaul channel (H.sub.32) by means of one of at least one type of signal relaying that employs decoding and encoding, and —communicate with a corresponding group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) via a corresponding access channel (h.sub.31, h.sub.32), each group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) comprising at least one second type node (U31, U32). In the case of a backhaul channel (H′.sub.32) between the first type node (AP3) and one other first type node (AP.sub.2) being determined to be blocked to a certain degree, the first type node (AP.sub.3) is further adapted to instruct at least one second type node (U.sub.31) of the second type nodes in the group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) that is comprised in an over-heard sub-group, to communicate directly with an overhearing first type node (AP.sub.1) via a corresponding access channel (h.sub.31-1).

The present disclosure relates to a first type node (AP.sub.3) in a wireless communication system (1), wherein the first type node (AP.sub.3) is adapted to: —communicate with at least one other first type node (AP.sub.2) in the wireless communication system (1) over a corresponding backhaul channel (H.sub.32) by means of one of at least one type of signal relaying that employs decoding and encoding, and —communicate with a corresponding group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) via a corresponding access channel (h.sub.31, h.sub.32), each group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) comprising at least one second type node (U31, U32). In the case of a backhaul channel (H′.sub.32) between the first type node (AP3) and one other first type node (AP.sub.2) being determined to be blocked to a certain degree, the first type node (AP.sub.3) is further adapted to instruct at least one second type node (U.sub.31) of the second type nodes in the group of second type nodes (U.sub.31, U.sub.32) that is comprised in an over-heard sub-group, to communicate directly with an overhearing first type node (AP.sub.1) via a corresponding access channel (h.sub.31-1).

A wireless communication system including a transmitting station and one or more receiving stations, the one or more receiving stations including a receiving station serving as a destination, the receiving station serving as the destination receiving a transmitted signal from the transmitting station, the wireless communication system including a plurality of relay stations located between the transmitting station and the one or more receiving stations, wherein the transmitting station includes a relay station selection unit configured to select at least one relay station that relays the transmitted signal from among the plurality of relay stations, add information for turning on the at least one selected relay station to the transmitted signal, and transmit the transmitted signal, the at least one selected relay station is configured to be turned on in accordance with the information of the transmitted signal to perform a non-regenerative relay of the transmitted signal, and the receiving station serving as the destination is configured to receive the transmitted signal relayed via the at least one relay station that is turned on.

A system may include a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) including nodes. The nodes may include beacon-based clusterhead (BB-CH) nodes and members. Each of the nodes may be configured to transmit communication data packets and transmit beacons. Each of the nodes may have passive spatial awareness. For each of at least some of the BB-CH nodes having members, a BB-CH node may be configured to compile spatial awareness information of all members of the BB-CH node. The compiled spatial awareness information may include a BB-CH node identification, position-location information (PLI) of the BB-CH node, a quantity of the members, and a member list with PLI. For each of the at least some of the BB-CH nodes, the BB-CH node may be configured to broadcast, via efficient flooding, some or all of the compiled spatial awareness information to every connected node.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may establish a first connection between a child wireless node and a first base station and a second connection between the child wireless node and a second base station, wherein the first connection is an F1-U direct path and the second connection is an F1-U alternative path. The wireless node may forward at least a portion of user-plane traffic between the child wireless node and the first base station via the second connection and the second base station. Numerous other aspects are described.