The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.

For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to set an Association Identifier (AID) field to a predefined AID value. For example, the predefined AID value may be configured to indicate that a non-AP station (STA) having latency-sensitive traffic is to be allowed to transmit a non-Trigger-Based (non-TB) Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including the latency-sensitive traffic according to a channel contention mechanism during a contention-based time period. For example, the AP may be configured to transmit a trigger frame to allocate the contention-based time period. For example, the trigger frame may include the AID field.

For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to set an Association Identifier (AID) field to a predefined AID value. For example, the predefined AID value may be configured to indicate that a non-AP station (STA) having latency-sensitive traffic is to be allowed to transmit a non-Trigger-Based (non-TB) Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including the latency-sensitive traffic according to a channel contention mechanism during a contention-based time period. For example, the AP may be configured to transmit a trigger frame to allocate the contention-based time period. For example, the trigger frame may include the AID field.

Embodiments relate to the field of wireless communication technologies and provide a method for performing channel sounding, a network-side device, and a terminal. A first terminal sends a resource scheduling request to a network-side device when the first terminal starts a communication connection with a second terminal. The resource scheduling request carrying information about the second terminal requests the network-side device to allocate a transmission resource for channel sounding between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal receives a sounding reference signal sent by the second terminal, and obtains information of a channel for communication between the first terminal and the second terminal. The method enables quick and effective channel sounding between terminals, thereby increasing communication efficiency between the terminals.

Embodiments relate to the field of wireless communication technologies and provide a method for performing channel sounding, a network-side device, and a terminal. A first terminal sends a resource scheduling request to a network-side device when the first terminal starts a communication connection with a second terminal. The resource scheduling request carrying information about the second terminal requests the network-side device to allocate a transmission resource for channel sounding between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal receives a sounding reference signal sent by the second terminal, and obtains information of a channel for communication between the first terminal and the second terminal. The method enables quick and effective channel sounding between terminals, thereby increasing communication efficiency between the terminals.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, control signaling that indicates one or more parameters pertaining to reception of paging early indications (PEIs). The UE may receive a PEI from the base station in accordance with the one or more parameters. The UE may determine, based on the PEI, whether the UE is scheduled to receive a multicast paging message from the base station in a subsequent paging occasion (PO). If the UE is scheduled to receive a multicast paging message, the UE may monitor for the multicast paging message in the subsequent PO. Otherwise, the UE may enter a low-power state during the subsequent PO, which may result in greater power savings at the UE. Aspects of the present disclosure may provide for improved multicast paging operations between the UE and the base station.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for sidelink resource allocation in user equipment (UE) groups. The method includes, receiving, by a UE, from a radio access network (RAN) node, a first resource configuration message including configuration information for sidelink resources indicated by a sidelink resource grant and conditions for using sidelink resources of the sidelink resource grant. The method further includes receiving, from a second UE of the UE group, a second sidelink resource configuration message, the second sidelink resource configuration message including an activation indicator to activate at least a portion of the sidelink resources indicated by the sidelink resource grant. The method further includes determining the sidelink resources to be used for sidelink transmissions by combining the first and second sidelink resource configuration messages. The method further includes using the determined sidelink resources for data transmissions.

A method performed by a network node for handling data transmissions to two or more User Equipments, UEs, in a wireless communications network is provided. The network node decides that a first UE and a second UE are compatible for simultaneous data transmissions. The network node times the data transmissions to the first UE and the second UE in a common time resource, for simultaneous data transmissions comprising a first data transmission to the first UE and a second data transmission the second UE.

A method performed by a network node for handling data transmissions to two or more User Equipments, UEs, in a wireless communications network is provided. The network node decides that a first UE and a second UE are compatible for simultaneous data transmissions. The network node times the data transmissions to the first UE and the second UE in a common time resource, for simultaneous data transmissions comprising a first data transmission to the first UE and a second data transmission the second UE.

A base station for wireless communication with a plurality of terminals and a method of operating a base station are described. The base station comprises downlink scheduling circuitry to perform a downlink scheduling process and uplink scheduling circuitry to perform a corresponding uplink scheduling process, the uplink scheduling process being constrained based on results of the downlink scheduling process. In addition, the uplink scheduling circuitry is configured to provide, to the downlink scheduling circuitry, a control signal to influence the downlink scheduling process.