A method is described of evaluating the energy consumption of a service unit rolled out, or intended for being rolled out, on a given infrastructure of a communications network. The method includes determining the energy consumption W_no measured on the infrastructure in the absence of the service unit, determining the energy consumption W_yes measured on the infrastructure in the presence of the service unit, and obtaining the energy consumption induced by rolling out the service unit by calculating the difference (W_yes−W_no). The disclosed technology is applicable to 5G networks.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide an information transmission method and apparatus based on a non-orthogonal multiple access technology and a system. The method is applicable to an eNB and includes: the eNB transmits first information and second information of UE to the UE by using same resources; and the eNB transmits indication information to the UE, the indication information indicating the UE that the first information of the UE is overlapped on resources for transmitting the second information of the UE. With the method, apparatus and system of the embodiments of this disclosure, a system capacity of a control channel area of the UE may be improved, thereby improving an overall capacity of the system.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may establish a wireless connection with a primary cell and may identify a set of antenna modules of the UE and multiple sets of receive beams. Each set of receive beams may include at least one beam from each antenna module. The UE may perform a measurement procedure on signals received from one or more candidate secondary cells using at least a first set of receive beams. The UE may then transmit, to the primary cell, a measurement report based on performing the measurement procedure upon determining that at least one of the multiple sets of receive beams satisfies a threshold value and before performing the measurement procedure on signals received from the one or more candidate secondary cells using at least one remaining set of receive beams.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide techniques for receiving reference signals by a user equipment (UE) from a base station in a downlink channel, as well as transmitting a linear combination index from the UE to the base station. In particular, the linear combination index identifies a combination of beams selected from a set of beams in accordance with the RS.

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises baseband circuitry including one or more processors to decode a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) or a beam reference signal (BRS) received from an evolved Node B (eNB) to select a Tier-1 sector for receiving downlink transmissions from the eNB, decode a downlink control channel message received from the eNB at one or more fixed time offsets after the UE decodes the SSS to obtain index information for the Tier-1 sector to identify the Tier-1 sector, and if the Tier-1 sector has changed initiate a random access procedure to select an updated Tier-1 sector, and generate an updated Tier-1 sector index message to report to the eNB.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Linking multiple search space sets for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition may be enabled in a system. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configured search space set association from a base station. The association may indicate, to the UE, a configuration between a first PDCCH candidate and a second PDCCH candidate. The first PDCCH candidate may correspond to a first search space set, while the second PDCCH candidate may correspond to a second search space set. The UE may monitor the first and second search space set based on the configuration. The UE may combine the first PDCCH candidate with the second PDCCH candidate monitored in the first and second search space set based on capabilities of the UE and the configuration. The UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidates along with individual PDCCH candidates.

A communication method and system for converging a 5.sup.th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4.sup.th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal for handling scheduling request (SR) cancellation in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises identifying that at least one first SR is triggered, identifying whether each of the at least one first SR is triggered for beam failure recovery (BFR) of a secondary cell (SCell), and determining whether to cancel each of the at least one SR based on the identification.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a discovery reference signal from a base station on an anchor channel. The UE may perform a first random or pseudorandom frequency hopping procedure to identify a plurality of downlink carriers for a first time period. The UE may perform a second random or pseudorandom frequency hopping procedure within the plurality of downlink carriers to select one of the plurality of downlink carriers as the uplink channel for a second time period. The UE may then transmit an uplink communication during the second time period on the selected uplink channel. In some examples, the uplink communication may be transmitted based at least in part on time division multiplexing (TDM) information.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a discovery reference signal from a base station on an anchor channel. The UE may perform a first random or pseudorandom frequency hopping procedure to identify a plurality of downlink carriers for a first time period. The UE may perform a second random or pseudorandom frequency hopping procedure within the plurality of downlink carriers to select one of the plurality of downlink carriers as the uplink channel for a second time period. The UE may then transmit an uplink communication during the second time period on the selected uplink channel. In some examples, the uplink communication may be transmitted based at least in part on time division multiplexing (TDM) information.

A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating: a plurality of a channel occupancy time (COT) parameters of a COT of a cell; and a position parameter for the COT of the cell. A downlink control information (DCI) comprising a plurality of fields is received. The position parameter indicates a position of a field, of the plurality of fields. The field indicates a COT parameter, of the plurality of COT parameters. A transport block is transmitted via uplink resources of the COT with the COT parameter.