Provided are a measurement method and apparatus, and devices. The method comprises: a terminal device acquiring a plurality of measurement parameters of a network device; and the terminal device determining a first measurement parameter from the plurality of measurement parameters, and performing measurement on a TN cell according to the first measurement parameter. The communication performance between the terminal device and the network device is improved.

A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that performs uplink transmission; and a processor that adjusts timing of the uplink transmission with respect to a downlink reception timing, wherein, when a band of a cell in which uplink transmission is performed is not a predetermined band, the processor adjusts the timing by using a same offset value when a duplex mode of the band of the cell is frequency division duplex (FDD) and when the duplex mode of the band of the cell is time division duplex (TDD). In other aspects, a base station and an uplink transmission timing adjustment method executed by the terminal are also disclosed.

An electronic equipment, a user equipment, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium, the electronic equipment comprising a processing circuit and being configured to: receive from a user equipment a random access request message that is expected to access a satellite equipment; and in response to the random access request message, send to the user equipment the advance in timing between the user equipment and the satellite equipment to be accessed. By using said electronic equipment, user equipment, wireless communication method, and storage medium, a user equipment in a satellite communication system may more quickly and efficiently acquire control information relating to uplink transmission.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of one or more reception parameters, of the UE, for sidelink communication and downlink communication. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the one or more reception parameters, at least one of one or more sidelink streams or one or more downlink streams. Numerous other aspects are provided.

The invention relates to a solution for determining an allowable round trip time for a communication between a base station and a terminal device served by the base station in an asynchronous communication system, At least some aspects of the solution relate to a method performed by a controller, the method comprises: determining round trip times of terminal devices served by the base station; selecting a maximum round trip time among the determined round trip times of the terminal devices served by the base station as the allowable round trip time; and delivering the selected allowable round trip time to the base station. The solution also relates to applying the determined round trip time by a base station and a terminal device as well as to a system comprising the mentioned entities and to computer program products.

A method implemented by a user equipment performs a handover between a first cell and a second cell in a network comprising a satellite communication network, the first cell and the second cell being supported by one or more satellites of the satellite communication network, the first cell corresponding to a first base station and the second cell corresponding to a second base station, at least the first cell being supported by a non-geostationary orbit satellite of the satellite communication network, the method including: determining a value to be used as a timing advance in the second cell; and performing an uplink transmission with the second base station using the value to be used as a timing advance in the second cell.

The present disclosure proposes schemes, techniques, designs and methods pertaining to transmission and reception of random access preambles to aid integration of terrestrial mobile network communication and non-terrestrial network (NTN) communication. The design of a proposed preamble is suitable for terrestrial mobile networks and for transmission scenarios with Doppler frequency shift and long propagation delay in NTN communications. The structure of the proposed preamble is used in random access of terrestrial and NTNs. The structure of the preamble can be modified based on the preamble design used for terrestrial network communication, so that it can be used in the random access of NTNs.

A method for obtaining information is applicable to a first device and includes: detecting a second device capable of providing first information; transmitting a request for obtaining the first information to the second device and obtaining the first information from the second device.

A method and a communication apparatus for determining a timing advance. A downlink signal is received from a network device. A first reference moment of a signal period of the downlink signal is determined, where the first reference moment includes a start receiving moment of the signal period. A first time interval between the start receiving moment and a start moment of a first period in which the terminal is located is determined. Based on the first time interval, determining whether a start sending moment of the signal period is within the first period, and determining the start sending moment, where a period is a duration distributed at an equal interval on a time axis. A timing advance is determined based on the start receiving moment and the start sending moment, and an uplink signal is sent based on the timing advance.

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives first information sent by a first base station, where the first information includes a first timing advance of a second base station, or the first information includes a parameter used by the terminal device to obtain the first timing advance of the second base station, and the first timing advance is a timing advance used in a process of data transmission with the second base station; and the terminal device obtains the first timing advance of the second base station based on the first information.