Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for low complexity physical downlink channel. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining one or more policies for monitoring one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) within one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) for a first type of UE, wherein the one or more policies for the first type of UE are different from a set of policies for a second type of UE; and monitoring for signals from a network entity via the one or more PDCCHs according to the determined policies.

An access method and apparatus, and a communication system is provided One example method includes: sending resource configuration information, where the resource configuration information configures a first time-frequency resource used for access of a plurality of terminals; and receiving access information from at least one of the plurality of terminals on the first time-frequency resource, where the access information of the terminal includes at least one of first identity information or status information of the terminal, the first identity information identifies the terminal, and the status information indicates a status of the terminal.

A network accessing method includes performing a cell search procedure for a first RAT; receiving first SI from a first cell of the first RAT when the first cell has been found in the cell search procedure; determining whether second SI is scheduled by the first cell according to content of the first SI; receiving the second SI in response to determination of the second SI being scheduled and deriving information regarding a second cell of a second RAT different from the first RAT; searching for the second cell according to the information regarding the second cell; and attempting to access the second cell instead of the first cell when the second cell has been found. The first cell is configured to provide access to a first core network and the second cell is configured to provide access to a second core network different from the first core network.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure a reference signal received power (RSRP) associated with a reference signal (RS) broadcast by a network. The UE may further measure a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) using a plurality of resource elements (REs) that do not include the RS and excluding REs that do include the RS. Accordingly, the UE may determine a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) associated with the RS based at least in part on the RSRP and the RSSI. Numerous other aspects are described.

A method and apparatus for selecting a NR cell in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for selecting a NR cell includes selecting, by a terminal, a first cell, acquiring, by the terminal in the first cell, a MIB, acquiring, by the terminal in the first cell, a SIB1 based at least in part on a first information in the MIB, considering, by the terminal, the first cell as barred, performing, by the terminal a first operation group if the SIB1 received in the first cell does not include a intraFreqReselection and performing, by the terminal a second operation group if the SIB1 received in the first cell includes the intraFreqReselection and the second intraFreqReselection is set to NotAllowed.

A method and apparatus for selecting a NR cell in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for selecting a NR cell includes selecting, by a terminal, a first cell, performing, by the terminal a first operation group if the terminal fails to acquire MIB in the first cell and performing, by the terminal a second operation group if the terminal succeeds to acquire MIB and SIB1 in the first cell and the MIB includes cellBarred set to barred and the SIB1 includes a intraFreqReselection set to NotAllowed.

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a discovery signal transmitted from a connection point (CP) via a directional beam. The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the CP. The apparatus then transmits an association signal to the CP based on the beam sweep configuration information and monitors for a resource grant from the CP based on the transmitted association signal. Alternatively, the apparatus transmits a discovery signal via a directional beam to a user equipment (UE). The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the apparatus. The apparatus then receives an association signal from the UE based on the beam sweep configuration information and determines a resource grant for communicating with the UE based on the received association signal.

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a discovery signal transmitted from a connection point (CP) via a directional beam. The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the CP. The apparatus then transmits an association signal to the CP based on the beam sweep configuration information and monitors for a resource grant from the CP based on the transmitted association signal. Alternatively, the apparatus transmits a discovery signal via a directional beam to a user equipment (UE). The discovery signal may include first information (including beam sweep configuration information) related to the apparatus. The apparatus then receives an association signal from the UE based on the beam sweep configuration information and determines a resource grant for communicating with the UE based on the received association signal.

A system information indication method and apparatus and a communication system. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by indicating a correspondence between an area related ID or a system information related index and system information, and/or notifying information on a change of the area related ID or system information related index, a case may be avoided where a UE needs still to obtain system information from a network side when system information of a current cell is stored, thereby efficiently lowering power consumption of the UE in acquiring the system information.

A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit (551) acquiring information from a base station apparatus, a determination unit (552) determining whether a connected base station apparatus is a non-ground station or a ground station based on the acquired information, and a communication controller (553) executing communication control for the non-ground station when it is determined that the connected base station apparatus is the non-ground station.